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

[Ralf Angeli]

* 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))

-- 
Ralf