Re: [AUCTeX] Indenting a region is problematic in LaTeX mode

[Ralf Angeli]

* Rodolfo Medina (2009-08-25) writes:

> Normally, in Emacs, in text mode, to indent a region, say, by 8 columns, after
> marking the region I do: `C-u 8 C-x TAB' to indent every single line, then
> `M-q' to fill the paragraph with the new indentation.
>
> In LaTeX, mode, `M-q' does not do the job.

As described in (info "(auctex)Filling"), filling also indents in LaTeX
mode.

> Is there any setting to make that possible,

No.

> or do I have to switch every time
> to text mode to do the job and then to LaTeX mode again?

You could define a function which does this.

-- 
Ralf