Re: yank-and-indent

[Michael Slass]

Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

>"Timur Aydin" <asdfweasdf@diowekfsdf.dersdre> writes:
>
>> In programming, very often a number of lines are killed, yanked to another
>> location and are reindented according to the new location. 
>
>Try this.  No idea where i got it.  Actually, looks like I got it
>from 
>http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=u66crixve.fsf%40sdm.de&rnum=1
>
>;; automatically indenting yanked text if in programming-modes
>(defadvice yank (after indent-region activate)
>  (if (member major-mode '(emacs-lisp-mode
>                          c-mode c++-mode
>                          tcl-mode sql-mode
>                          perl-mode cperl-mode
>                          java-mode jde-mode
>                          LaTeX-mode TeX-mode))
>      (let ((transient-mark-mode nil))
>       (indent-region (region-beginning) (region-end) nil))))
>

This is better than my solution --- it uses the fact that yank sets
the point and mark around the yanked text, so you don't need the
chicanery I used.

I'm adding this to my .emacs right now.

-- 
Mike Slass