max unindent: indent-* with arg 0

max unindent: indent-* with arg 0

[Dan Jacobson]

Gentlemen, it might be the case that indent-rigidly, indent-region,
etc. when called with an argument of zero, should remove all
indentation.

I mean I was dealing with these lines
       Hi.  I'm indented.
      Me too.
          Me three.
And thinking, must I resort to (query-replace-regexp "^\\s-+" "") or
isn't there some command called *-indent-* to handle it.
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Re: max unindent: indent-* with arg 0

[Miles Bader]

jidanni@deadspam.com (Dan Jacobson) writes:
> Gentlemen, it might be the case that indent-rigidly, indent-region,
> etc. when called with an argument of zero, should remove all
> indentation.

If you want to remove all indentation, just give it a big negative
argument, e.g. `C-u -99 C-x TAB'.

-Miles
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Re: max unindent: indent-* with arg 0

[Dan Jacobson]

>>>>> "M" == Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

>> Gentlemen, it might be the case that indent-rigidly, indent-region,
>> etc. when called with an argument of zero, should remove all
>> indentation.

M> If you want to remove all indentation, just give it a big negative
M> argument, e.g. `C-u -99 C-x TAB'.

Ok, sure wish they would mention this in the indent-rigidly help.
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Re: max unindent: indent-* with arg 0

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@deadspam.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: 21 May 2002 06:34:01 +0800
> 
> M> If you want to remove all indentation, just give it a big negative
> M> argument, e.g. `C-u -99 C-x TAB'.
> 
> Ok, sure wish they would mention this in the indent-rigidly help.

Thanks, I made it so.