Re: python-mode: keep mark when shifting [patch]

[David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>]

On 13 Mar 2006, at 00:22, Dave Love wrote:

>  The shift-region functions are inherited from the old python-mode.el
> and may or may not really be a good idea.

Consider the following use case:  A code block is to be moved out of  
its context in order to stick it into a separate function. I yank it  
at its destination, write a "def newfunc():" at the top. But now I  
have to reindent it. Repeated use of C-c > and C-c < do that job just  
fine. However, because it is typically used repeatedly on the same  
region, deactivating the mark is very inconvenient.

In other languages, I would use C-M-\ to re-indent automatically,  
which is impossible in Python, since indentation carries semantics  
and doesn't follow from the code. You mentioned that other  
indentation function (i.e. shift functions) also deactivate the mark.  
If that's so, I would argue that these should be changed as well for  
the same reason.