Re: Indenting with the tab key like everyone else

["R. Diez" <rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de>]

> I am not sure what you really want to do exactly. There are some tips I
> thought of based on the code:
 > [...]

After much fighting with Emacs, I think I narrowed the problem down to a weird side-effect of calling (use-region-p). I have written this 
routine for test purposes. I would be interested to know if you can reproduce it on your Emacs.

   ; This routine lets you test the surprising side-effect of calling (use-region-p).
   ;
   ; Before calling this routine, select a few text lines by going to the beginning of a line
   ; (column 0) and pressing Shift + <cursor down> a few times. The lines will be highlighted.
   ;
   ; Then call this routine interactively a few times in a row. The lines will indent one character at a time.
   ; The first time, the highlighting will disappear, but the selection will somehow stay, so that
   ; further calls will still indent the same lines.
   ;
   ; After the test above, change "(if t" below to "(if (use-region-p)", and repeat the test.
   ; The first time, the text will indent one character, but the second call will not indent anymore,
   ; because the selection is completely lost.


   (defun indentation-test nil ""
     (interactive)

     (if t
     ; (if (use-region-p)
       (indent-rigidly (region-beginning) (region-end) 1)
       (message "Skipping because there is no selection.")
     )
   )

Best regards,
   rdiez