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From: Sanford Selznick <see-message@for.real.address.com>
Subject: Re: M-x indent-region
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 10:14:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <see-message-456731.10143205052003@corp.newsfeeds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5568.1052122245.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

In article <mailman.5568.1052122245.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> wrote:
>    In emacs, 'M-x indent-region' is the best indent I've ever seen.
> 
>    How can I trigger this action from the command-line and have emacs
>    indent an individual file?
> 
> Whats wrong with just using GNU indent?  They should do the same
> thing.

Well, for starters, it doesn't indent C++.  ;-)  Beyond that, it's more 
of a reformatter than a pure indenter, like emacs.  The emacs indent 
doesn't change the line number of any given token... all it does is 
change the indent of a given line.

Best,
  Sanford


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-05 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-05  0:36 M-x indent-region Sanford Selznick
2003-05-05  6:12 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-05  8:03 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
     [not found] ` <mailman.5568.1052122245.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-05 17:14   ` Sanford Selznick [this message]
2003-05-05 18:49     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-05 22:38       ` Sanford Selznick
2003-05-06 16:45         ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-07  3:47           ` Sanford Selznick

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