From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Indenting paragraphs manually Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:58:53 +0000 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <4d73cb63$0$23764$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299437576 26111 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2011 18:52:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 18:52:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 06 19:52:51 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PwJ4T-0000xm-Em for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 19:52:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39577 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PwIsa-0004PS-MI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:40:32 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 92.232.137.113 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC===85l[A@J6`O3d^23S\Y2mYSB=nbEKnkkoj1@Y8@kn0f^H_C>[:W; BfUdS?DZIH?Ua6E]45i7E1PaiLQiXd?DWbgG[N=S List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:79828 Archived-At: On 3/5/2011 8:26 PM, Andrea Crotti wrote: >> What I see: >> - The selected lines are not not moved at all. >> - The region is deactivated. >> >> Please, could someone explain this? Am I missing something? (I guess I >> am, and that's why I'm posting to help-gnu-emacs instead of >> bug-gnu-emacs) The region getting deactivated is part of the design. Funny that nobody seems to have mentioned it. Most operations that make use of the active mark deactivate it. You have to activate it again if you want to repeat some operation. C-xC-x is a good way of doing so. The selected lines not moving seems to be a bug in the development version. In the current release, 23.2, the lines are moving the first time, but they are moving correctly a second time. So, that is buggy as well. Sigh... In any case, the traditional way of moving a region of text is to use `indent-rigidly' (C-x TAB). You can give it a prefix argument, e.g., M-10, to say indent 10 spaces. Cheers, Uday