From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Decebal Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Writing a function for a indented copy of a region Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:09:45 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229536012 2472 80.91.229.12 (17 Dec 2008 17:46:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:46:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 17 18:47:56 2008 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 4.50) id 1LD0UT-0006Ed-3v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:47:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51491 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LD0TG-0001Bg-UH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:46:06 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!r10g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.158.139.99 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1229533785 21328 127.0.0.1 (17 Dec 2008 17:09:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:09:45 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r10g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.158.139.99; posting-account=K-cdeAoAAAD_0d505kUtHXJaT5LFIu-3 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 proxy-25:8080 (squid/2.5.STABLE8), 1.0 netcache-3 (NetCache NetApp/6.0.5), 1.0 netcache-3 (NetCache NetApp/6.0.5), 1.1 cache-1:80 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165409 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:60739 Archived-At: On 17 dec, 16:59, "Drew Adams" wrote: > > A lot of times I need to copy a part of a (log) file for an e-mail. I > > like to indent this (default with four spaces). At this moment I do > > this by hand. But I would like to do this with a function. > > What I would like this function to do is take the part that is > > selected, indent this with (default) four spaces, put the indented > > region in the kill-ring and undo the indent. Has anyone a pointer > > about how to code this? > > `C-x TAB' is `indent-rigidly' > `M-w' copies the region to the `kill-ring' But the first statement unselects the region, that is why I want to write an elisp function to call after I selected the region. Is it possible to see if there is a region selected in an elisp function? What I was thinking about was to put the start and the end of the region in registers and use those registers in the function to mark the region again after I indented to put the indented text into the kill-ring. After that I should do an undo. And then the file is not changed, but I have the indented region in the kill-ring.