From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Provide numerical argument to indent-rigidly-right Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2021 22:17:52 +0200 Message-ID: <83mtm7x11r.fsf@gnu.org> References: <041d4c92-7a19-c0dd-c9f8-16e9cacbb671@easy-emacs.de> <878rxscqz1.fsf@gmail.com> <395087d9-43ac-7734-1818-82440e991546@easy-emacs.de> <83y25rx5qt.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29403"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 13 21:18:47 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mlzU7-0007RF-Ll for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 13 Nov 2021 21:18:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50096 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlzU6-0005B6-Mw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:18:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:35722) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlzTT-00057g-4B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:18:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=60388 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlzTS-0001j5-S0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:18:06 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=HXbWBEg8a9ks0zsdvOqmvQjH3BZC0yKc+lvx8WZTg6o=; b=prz0oTY7nrV6 KKTF9MoPdkWFgbuOkx1xHlm0V2p/99lSbqvjkT7ZCHuQveaw+MWY7/gyBfWW9uWDll6cB79jDbyfM 0bQ/EqNCrPELolqh0Lw3bxc/ObpnQ7LOhMQqLFPev9kay9PrG0re/272EGVrvWJ6X2bF4jbhm9uJf U1h3VmAkGzzYB/K8ZOJIQ7/rRU7/MNqm5FeoG9vSSmMP7+2Fn+/gkjw4vU8sdDChp45PbccqNLdAZ zIbIhftrn2Ik1EWE6BEIoGq2R2npxPoVTOK8xy36y2bB83vUXrUcugCgkSTqlGy1vRzZsXwShG/vI b8vbWusDHC6xL6timZA1Uw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4186 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mlzTS-0005fy-F2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:18:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor on Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:00:35 -0500) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:134575 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:00:35 -0500 > From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor > > Eli Zaretskii [2021-11-13 20:36:26] wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2021 11:54:53 -0500 > >> From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor > >> > M-- 4 M-x indent-rigidly RET has no effect here. Bug? > >> Sounds like it: it should strip (upto) 4 spaces from the beginning of > >> each line in the region. > > Only if there are spaces at the beginning of each line. > > That's what I meant by "upto", indeed. Well, if "upto" yields zero spaces, then the OP will think that "nothing happened".