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

[Rodolfo Medina]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * Rodolfo Medina (2009-08-25) writes:
>
>> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> * 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.
>>>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Can anyone suggest the code for such a function?  I'm no lisp expert, but
>> that seems to be important.  E.g., suppose you are writing a (La)TeX
>> document with \item issues: then you might want to indent paragraphs like
>> this:
>>
>> \item{1)} The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about
>>           the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She 
>> seldom
>>           or never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they 
>> were
>>           her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style,"
>>           not service -- she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids 
>> just
>>           as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not
>>           fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:
>>
>> .  I just did that in one second because I'm not in LaTeX mode; otherwise I'd
>> had to do it by hand, which is most inconvenient.  So, I think it's very
>> important.
>
> For this particular use case you could do something like
>
> (let ((LaTeX-indent-level 10) (LaTeX-item-indent -10)) (fill-paragraph))


Thanks, but, put in .emacs, that causes error at start up.

Rodolfo