The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph.
Whitespace inserted at the beginning of a line. Different textual areas in input files use different, user-configurable rules to determine the type and amount of whitespace.
Indentation is the blank space at the beginning of a line. Lisp, like many other programming languages, has conventions for the indentation of code to make it more readable. The editor is designed to facilitate such indentation.
the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line
a device used to organize a specific pattern of blank space in from the edge of the margin, as in typical paragraph usage
an amount of space measured from the page margin that is applied to a paragraph or an area of a document
indent A gap between the MARGIN of a PAGE and the start of the TEXT. An indentation can be for one line, as with a new PARAGRAPH, or for a whole section, as with a BULLET LIST or HANGING INDENT.
Indentation means blank space at the beginning of a line. Most programming languages have conventions for using indentation to illuminate the structure of the program, and Emacs has special features to help you set up the correct indentation. See section »ú²1/4¤².
Insetting a line of text in from the margin, as at the beginning of a paragraph or within an outline, or to set off a quotation.
Indentation means blank space at the beginning of a line. Most programming languages have conventions for using indentation to illuminate the structure of the program, and Emacs has special commands to adjust indentation. See section S. Indentation.
The distance between the text and the left page margin. See: First Line Indent, Hanging Indent.