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* Indenting paragraphs manually
@ 2011-03-04 23:17 Dani Moncayo
  2011-03-05 20:26 ` Andrea Crotti
                   ` (5 more replies)
  0 siblings, 6 replies; 38+ messages in thread
From: Dani Moncayo @ 2011-03-04 23:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

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 <TAB> key in text modes:

      In text modes, <TAB> 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 <TAB>

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

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 of 2011-02-26 on dani-P5PL2
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2011-03-04 23:17 Indenting paragraphs manually Dani Moncayo
2011-03-05 20:26 ` Andrea Crotti
2011-03-05 22:23   ` Harry Putnam
2011-03-06 11:47   ` Dani Moncayo
2011-03-06 13:50     ` Peter Dyballa
2011-03-06 14:12       ` Dani Moncayo
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2011-03-06 14:18       ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-07  5:04     ` Le Wang
2011-03-07  7:32       ` Dani Moncayo
2011-03-05 22:01 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-03-06 11:50   ` Dani Moncayo
2011-03-05 23:28 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-03-06  2:29   ` Le Wang
2011-03-06  3:08     ` PJ Weisberg
2011-03-06  8:37       ` Le Wang
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2011-03-06  8:18   ` rusi
2011-03-06  9:10     ` Le Wang
2011-03-06 16:30 ` I filed two bug reports (was: Re: Indenting paragraphs manually) Gregor Zattler
2011-03-06 16:50   ` Dani Moncayo
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2011-03-06 17:58   ` Indenting paragraphs manually Uday Reddy
2011-03-06 19:17     ` Dani Moncayo
2011-03-06 19:27       ` Teemu Likonen
2011-03-06 19:42         ` Dani Moncayo
2011-03-06 20:26           ` Drew Adams
2011-03-06 20:57             ` Dani Moncayo
2011-03-06 21:42               ` Drew Adams
2011-03-07 21:58                 ` Perry Smith
2011-03-07 22:14                   ` Drew Adams
2011-03-06 21:44           ` Teemu Likonen
2011-03-07  8:18             ` Teemu Likonen
2011-03-07 13:42               ` Le Wang
2011-03-07 14:38                 ` Le Wang
2011-03-07 14:52                   ` Teemu Likonen
2011-03-07 15:13                   ` Drew Adams
2011-03-07 15:04                 ` Drew Adams
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2011-03-07 16:09               ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-07 17:02                 ` Teemu Likonen
2011-03-06 19:44       ` Drew Adams

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