[NEWBIE] Questions

[Robert Pollard]

Hi all,

I have tried finding the answers to these questions before posting.  I 
apologize up front for any of these questions that are in the docs that 
I missed.

1.	Is there a way to adjust the indent space provided by the auto-fill 
functionality between the topic number and the text.  As in the 
following example:
        1.   lkajsdf lsdfl sadfl dfljasldflkjsdflk asld fls
                jsdfj asdfl lasdflj asdflj lsdf l jasdf lj sf  s
	Is there a way to adjust the space between the number 1. and the text? 
 It appears to be a default amount.

2.	If you have an outline and you need to move topics around is there a 
way to renumber the topics?
        i.e.
        2.    lkjasdf alkjdasf alsdf alsdjfl asldf
        1.    asdfsld fl sadf ls dfl lasdfl asdf
        3.    kljasdf lasdjf ljasdf asdj flkj asdf

3.	Why would a auto-fill not format the paragraph the way it does 99% 
of the other topics?
        i.e.
        The way it normally formats the paragraphs is:
        1.   asdfj asdfjljasdf lkjsdfj slkdjflj sdf sdfj lsdjf
              sdf ksdf ;sadkf; ksdfk;sldk f;lsdl f;slk df;lask f
        On 2 occasions it formatted like:
        1.   sjdfj asdfsldjfljasld flkj asdfj alsdj fkasdlfj las
        sdjflasdjf lkjsdfk asdj lksdjflk asdlkf lsflk sdlfk sl
        I had to manually insert the tab/spaces for the second line.

4.	I prefer not to have the paragraph indicators as a line feed for end 
of the paragraph as it appears to be on default.  I much prefer a 
carriage return to indicate the end of the paragraph.  As it stands, 
you have to have a blank line between paragraphs to indicate the end of 
the paragraph.  The start of the paragraph variable (paragraph-start) 
appears to have the correct pattern for indicating how the paragraph 
should end for my purposes.  This is what my variable values are now:
        paragraph-start's value is "\f\\|[         ]*$"
        Local in buffer <buffer-name>; global value is "[    \n\f]"

        paragraph-separate's value is "\f\\|[      ]*$"
        Local in buffer <buffer-name>; global value is "[    \f]*$"
        The question's are:
	1.	Checking the space between the brackets it appears to be 2 spaces 
and then a tab.  Is this correct?  And, if so, why are these characters 
used?
	2.	Why is there a different value for global and the current buffer?  
It appears there may be some kind of continuation pattern being used 
for each variable.  I do understand basic regular expressions but I 
don't fully understand these patterns.

5.	I am running version 21.2.1 under Cygwin on an Intel system.  
Certain key equivalents that I have gotten used to over the time that I 
have been using Emacs are not working anymore.  I have to type the 
commands in instead.
They are:
C-x C-c Quit Emacs
C-h v   Describe a variable
C-h i           Info docs
C-<spc>   Set a mark

Why would these key equivalents not work?  This is my first time for 
using Emacs in Cygwin but I thought the key equivalents would be the 
same on all systems.

I will try to limit the number of questions per posting but I do have 
others.

Thanks for your time,

Robert Pollard