left justify in HTML Helper mode

left justify in HTML Helper mode

[Haines Brown]

In editing html docs, I frequently encounter text that is either
centered or has a variable number of spaces at the beginning of each
line.

I want to left justify the whole or a marked area. The way I do it now
requres at least several steps.

-- 
      Haines Brown
	brownh@hartford-hwp.com
	kb1grm@arrl.net
	www.hartford-hwp.com

Re: left justify in HTML Helper mode

[Tim Haynes]

Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com> writes:

> In editing html docs, I frequently encounter text that is either centered
> or has a variable number of spaces at the beginning of each line.
>
> I want to left justify the whole or a marked area. The way I do it now
> requres at least several steps.

Is this specific to HTML(helper) mode?

How does `C-u - 8 0 C-x TAB' strike you, after choosing a region (or `C-x
h' for the whole buffer)? Choose a smaller number at will, but that'll
guaranteably left-align everything. :)

~Tim
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Re: left justify in HTML Helper mode

[Chuck Siska]

haines --

try C-u - 9 9 9 C-x <tab> on the region.

-- chuck

Haines Brown wrote:
> 
> In editing html docs, I frequently encounter text that is either
> centered or has a variable number of spaces at the beginning of each
> line.
> 
> I want to left justify the whole or a marked area. The way I do it now
> requres at least several steps.
> 
> --
>       Haines Brown
>         brownh@hartford-hwp.com
>         kb1grm@arrl.net
>         www.hartford-hwp.com

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Re: left justify in HTML Helper mode

[Haines Brown]

Chuck Siska <chuck.siska@skyworksinc.com> writes:

> haines --
> 
> try C-u - 9 9 9 C-x <tab> on the region.
> 
> -- chuck
> 
> Haines Brown wrote:
> > 
> > In editing html docs, I frequently encounter text that is either
> > centered or has a variable number of spaces at the beginning of each
> > line.
> > 
> > I want to left justify the whole or a marked area. The way I do it now
> > requres at least several steps.

Thanks, but not having much luck with this.

The suggestion to try C-u 80 C-x <TAB> merely moved the selected block
of text 80 spaces to the right and did nothing for justification.

Your suggesttion to try C-u 999 C-x <TAB> just moved the block even
more, again, without justfication.

Makes no difference if I'm in HTML or in Text mode.

-- 
      Haines Brown
	brownh@hartford-hwp.com
	kb1grm@arrl.net
	www.hartford-hwp.com

Re: left justify in HTML Helper mode

[lawrence mitchell]

Haines Brown wrote:

[...]

> The suggestion to try C-u 80 C-x <TAB> merely moved the selected block
> of text 80 spaces to the right and did nothing for justification.

> Your suggesttion to try C-u 999 C-x <TAB> just moved the block even
> more, again, without justfication.

You missed the minus sign, you need to type C-u <minus> 999 C-x
<TAB>, rather than what you did.  More information may be gleaned
from finding out what C-x <TAB> actually calls:

/----[ C-h k C-x TAB ]
| C-x TAB runs the command indent-rigidly
|    which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `indent'.
| (indent-rigidly START END ARG)
|
| Indent all lines starting in the region sideways by ARG
| columns.  Called from a program, takes three arguments, START,
| END and ARG.  You can remove all indentation from a region by
| giving a large negative ARG.
\----
                 ^^^^^^^^
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lawrence mitchell <wence@gmx.li>