Re: Indent region

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> `C-u 10 C-x TAB' or `C-M-\' indent a region `line by line', whereas I want the
> whole region to be indented, like:
> 
>     The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the
>     room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never
>     looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state
>     pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service --
>     she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked
>     perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough
>     for the furniture to hear:
> 
> .  In Emacs manual I couldn't find an answer to the problem.
> 
> Thanks for any help
> Rodolfo

At beginning of region do:

C-space

move to last line of region
move cursor rightward as far as you want the region indented

do:
C-x r o