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Re: M-x indent-region not working (?)
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: M-x indent-region not working (?) |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Aug 2003 21:03:10 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
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.
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