From: westin*nospam@graphics.cornell.edu (Stephen H. Westin)
Subject: Re: Indenting code: C-M-\ v C-x C-q
Date: 11 Nov 2003 15:26:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uekwek5x1.fsf@graphics.cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3fb13b2d@news.seqnet.net
"Siegfried Heintze" <siegfried@heintze.com> writes:
<snip>
> I just I happend to be poking around the www.Xemacs.com and noticed
> something about indenting perl code with C-M-\ and discovered it works great
> for indenting perl code in regular emacs too!
>
> Oh -- the time I could have saved if I had known this! Why are there two
> keys to do the same thing?
They don't. C-x C-q does a paragraph fill. With text, this means that
it takes the current paragraph (all the text surrounding the point and
between blank lines), treats it as a single line, then divides into
lines no wider than the fill column. C-M-\ indents programming code
within the currently selected region, without changing line breaks.
If writers of java-mode and such added auto indenting to "fill-paragraph",
I guess that's a nice extra feature.
<snip>
--
-Stephen H. Westin
Any information or opinions in this message are mine: they do not
represent the position of Cornell University or any of its sponsors.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-11 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-11 19:34 Indenting code: C-M-\ v C-x C-q Siegfried Heintze
2003-11-11 20:26 ` Stephen H. Westin [this message]
2003-11-11 21:44 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-11-11 23:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-14 21:06 ` Ole Laursen
2003-11-14 21:14 ` Ole Laursen
2003-11-14 21:55 ` Stefan Monnier
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