From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Tab completion and electric-indent-mode Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2022 10:15:34 +0100 Organization: On the Interweb somewhere Message-ID: <8735g2mix5.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <83zgibnw34.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33916"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:pmoEMV4AKiAg2AeXGgbFbDEQLY0= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 18 11:17:26 2022 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 1o2Ua6-0008g4-2A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2022 11:17:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35882 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o2Ua4-0002ii-Rr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2022 05:17:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44316) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o2UYQ-0002hu-Ga for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2022 05:15:42 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:44682) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o2UYP-0007Qq-0b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2022 05:15:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1o2UYN-0006WY-2q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Jun 2022 11:15:39 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Url: http://twitter.com/ericsfraga/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:137916 Archived-At: On Saturday, 18 Jun 2022 at 05:45, carlmarcos--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote: > Does there exist indentation that is "Not On-the-Fly"?  What would that do? Maybe, for instance, ,----[ C-h f indent-region RET ] | indent-region is an interactive native compiled Lisp function in | ‘indent.el’. | | It is bound to C-M-\. | | (indent-region START END &optional COLUMN) | | Indent each nonblank line in the region. | A numeric prefix argument specifies a column: indent each line to that column. | [...] | `---- which does this once when invoked explicitly, i.e. not on-the-fly. The other extreme, by the way, is aggresive-indent-mode which on-the-fly indents not just the line you are one but others around it as things change. I use it all the time. -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 29.0.50 2022-06-17) on Debian 11.3