From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dani Moncayo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Indenting paragraphs manually Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 00:17:46 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1299352548 30629 80.91.229.12 (5 Mar 2011 19:15:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 19:15:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 05 20:15:44 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 1Pvwx5-0004Ne-UY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 20:15:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35071 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pvwx5-0001mO-7B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:15:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51779 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PveGK-00075V-1S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:18:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PveFn-0000E4-OT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:17:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-gy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.160.169]:41282) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PveFn-0000Dn-Ey for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 18:17:47 -0500 Original-Received: by gyb13 with SMTP id 13so1246178gyb.0 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:17:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=+GSMNwBglD0FqJlpzdER5juPH4Pbg6eWIriPmdZtLUQ=; b=xXObAV6EUgUTdfPyxOXBjPU6mijUESg68lMoQOZwKzKwb3gGuwAH3VLje1APhbSCbm 8cFQRS8CRx4DjjIC/2K1r0eBEuP9RD4jWs4nsmjW4VpyaFRum+jqkiGVnyb4Xw54A89i SoDdMLNo/q3Xl0z32M+rTdYuicWvIy6OtCIUs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=TitF2LAoSTHGewWApoq5785Xl5CkyCyp1gkxVZur4z/a8fvXJDqamyl9kKbsnLSQFQ dUg2utHT5ygWZvIATLDEONvTp6Uwg4kENzNb01oouZqRw2FUQrUGJL1saYBA+4N5u5Ul Q0+uBDBtIXHUdrTTfBln8xcJM5QLx+/cHQ+1I= Original-Received: by 10.90.18.23 with SMTP id 23mr1804288agr.34.1299280666662; Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:17:46 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.90.116.11 with HTTP; Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:17:46 -0800 (PST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.160.169 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:14:34 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 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:79795 Archived-At: Hi! I'm looking for a simple way of indenting paragraphs manually (in text modes), and I've just read this node of the Emacs Manual: (info "(emacs) Indentation"). It explains, among other things, the general behavior of the key in text modes: In text modes, inserts some combination of space and tab characters to advance point to the next tab stop (*note Tab Stops). If the region is active and spans multiple lines, it advances the first character of each of those lines to the next tab stop (*note Using Region). [...] I'm used to that behavior in other editors, and I like it, but is not what I currently see in Emacs. e.g.: - Start Emacs (emacs -Q) - Set text-mode in the *scratch* buffer. (text-mode). - Set transient-mark-mode on. (transient-mark-mode 1). - Select the first 3 lines. - Type What I was expecting: - The selected lines move to the next tab-stop. - The region remains active, so that I can repeat the indentation several times in a row. 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) TIA --- Dani Moncayo In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.22.0) of 2011-02-26 on dani-P5PL2 Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10900000