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Re: M-x indent-region not working (?)
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guanxi |
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Re: M-x indent-region not working (?) |
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11 Aug 2003 07:56:21 -0700 |
kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) wrote in message
news:<84r83wt1jl.fsf@slowfox.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>...
> guanxi_i@yahoo.com (guanxi) writes:
>
> > M-x indent-region (or C-M-\) doesn't seem to behave per the manual:
> > "C-M-\ (indent-region) applies to all the lines that begin in the
> > region; it indents each line in the "usual" way, as if you had typed
> > TAB at the beginning of the line."
> > www.gnu.org/manual/emacs/html_node/emacs_230.html
> >
> >
> > In text mode, if I select these regions and type C-M-\, I get the
> > following results. In none of these examples does Emacs behave as if
> > I typed TAB at the beginning of each line -- is there somthing I
> > misunderstand?
>
> The wording in the manual is somewhat sloppy, I guess. Hm.
>
> Is it important for you to get it working correctly in this case, or
> are you just doing this to understand what's going on? In
> programming language modes, like C mode, C-M-\ does what you'd expect
> from the documentation.
I use Emacs for text editing (in English). Indenting a block of text
would be very useful.