delete-indentation should work on regions too

delete-indentation should work on regions too

[Dan Jacobson]

delete-indentation should work on regions too.  Probably something
like (indent-region (region-beginning) (region-end) -99999)

Re: delete-indentation should work on regions too

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:
> delete-indentation should work on regions too.  Probably something
> like (indent-region (region-beginning) (region-end) -99999)

,----[ C-h k M-^ ]
| M-^ runs the command delete-indentation
|    which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple'.
| (delete-indentation &optional ARG)
|
| Join this line to previous and fix up whitespace at join.
| If there is a fill prefix, delete it from the beginning of this line.
| With argument, join this line to following line.
`----

I've always wished that it would interpret a prefix argument to mean
"join this line and ARG preceding lines, or this line and ARG following
lines if ARG is negative".

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: delete-indentation should work on regions too

[Dan Jacobson]

Oops, as the two commands have different goals, I now mean:
delete-indentation's docstring should mention if one wants to
delete-indentation of a whole block, use indent-region with a negative
argument.

Re: delete-indentation should work on regions too

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:
 > Oops, as the two commands have different goals, I now mean:
 > delete-indentation's docstring should mention if one wants to
 > delete-indentation of a whole block, use indent-region with a negative
 > argument.

Or perhaps it could do that for you automatically:

   (if (and mark-active transient-mark-mode)
       ;; C-h v most-negative-fixnum
       (indent-region (region-beginning) (region-end) (- -1 (lsh -1 -1)))
     (progn
       ;; normal body here
       ))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers