indent-rigidly a real rightwinger

indent-rigidly a real rightwinger

[Dan Jacobson]

"C-x TAB runs the command indent-rigidly
Indent all lines starting in the region sideways by ARG columns."

And indeed, it is great fun to do
<escape> h C-x TAB C-x TAB C-x TAB C-x TAB C-x TAB
and watch the whole paragraph march rightwards.

However, when you want it to march leftwards _in the same fashion_,
then depression sets in.  One can only come up with
<escape> h <escape> - 1 C-x TAB <escape> - 1 C-x TAB <escape> - 1 C-x
TAB <escape> - 1 C-x TAB <escape> - 1 C-x TAB
i.e. a tongue twister for the fingers and mind.

One can only conclude that RMS was a rightist. [Weak joke. sorry.]

P.S. I'm habituated to the escape key, but the point remains for meta users.

Anyway, please make a way to march text leftwards with just as much ease.
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Re: indent-rigidly a real rightwinger

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:

> Anyway, please make a way to march text leftwards with just as much ease.

Have you so little imagination you couldn't come up with:

(defun unindent-rigidly (start end arg)
   "Unindent all lines starting in the region sideways by ARG columns.
Called from a program, takes three arguments, START, END and ARG."
   (interactive "r\np")
   (indent-rigidly start end (- arg)))

(global-set-key "\C-c\t" 'unindent-rigidly) ; or whatever key binding you desire

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Re: indent-rigidly a real rightwinger

[Dan Jacobson]

>>>>> "Kai" == Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@gmx.net> writes:

Kai> Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net> writes:
>> However, when you want it to march leftwards _in the same fashion_,
>> then depression sets in.  One can only come up with
>> <escape> h <escape> - 1 C-x TAB <escape> - 1 C-x TAB <escape> - 1 C-x
>> TAB <escape> - 1 C-x TAB <escape> - 1 C-x TAB
>> i.e. a tongue twister for the fingers and mind.

Kai> I just tried M-- C-x TAB C-x z z z ...

Kai> What do you think?

cool. I must have missed the NEWS.  There should be a device to make
sure the user knows the NEWS file has changed, saving a timestamp in
his .emacs.

Re: indent-rigidly a real rightwinger

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>
> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 08:21:22 +0800
> 
> There should be a device to make
> sure the user knows the NEWS file has changed, saving a timestamp in
> his .emacs.

That device is simply `t': NEWS _always_ changes in _every_ Emacs
release.  After unpacking the tarball, one should always read NEWS,
even before you build Emacs (since NEWS sometimes mentions new build
options).