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On Mar 29, 10:48 pm, "Herbert Euler" <herberteu...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >When I make a certain region, and press <TAB> then all texts in the
> >region was inserted TAB in normal text editor application. Reversely,
> ><S-TAB> or <C-TAB> makes delete TAB in the first column in the region.
>
> >How can Emacs do like that? (I bet Emacs can do it.)
>
> Perhaps M-x indent-rigidly is what you need.  It is normally bound to
> C-x TAB.
>
> Regards,
> Guanpeng Xu
>
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Thank you, but it is not actually TAB. Normally, the TAB has 8 spaces,
but when I do C-x TAB, it insert only one space. Also, is there any
way to work reversely?

Dan.