From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Bealby Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tidy up code Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:18:15 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87wsr8qoso.fsf@muscle.bealbywm.plus.com> References: <8fe575ee-5f12-4e70-9818-34d7b3769336@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <1116db7a-9821-4383-9529-9637460e8b5e@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198250189 20227 80.91.229.12 (21 Dec 2007 15:16:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:16:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 21 16:16:41 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J5jbq-0000Ob-GB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:16:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J5jbW-000875-HC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:16:02 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.ision.net!newsfeed2.easynews.net!ision!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.albasani.net!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Trace: feeder.motzarella.org U2FsdGVkX1/1rev2Xl/tkCsxIp+zcUgkoNCL/E4x0cPuzjBWdXLjr5uhd6BLNq6j2lp1dTEnElX0JjfRqa6A3am8JPnY8sAhpOA8YZVVdfdO/3g+7xBT2ykWnjd54dcAJmkT6NqMPe8= Original-X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:15:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+G5btJ95NpgNAenAFx9fkf Cancel-Lock: sha1:ESgXgzUt4UDG2dju+gltLxXsKDg= sha1:vh6VIqz5tcnef6pkpcgJb7mINIg= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154851 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:09:12 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50278 Archived-At: Umar writes: > On Dec 21, 4:29 pm, Jason Rumney wrote: >> >> indent-region (C-M-\) sounds like what you want. > > No success. I press Ctrl+Shift+m and then key \. Then the \ character > appears. As you are new to Emacs I'm assuming you are not used to the C-M- notation. Note that this does not mean Control + Capital M then \ C, M and S are modifier keys and you press the required ones at the same time. C is control. M is meta (alt on PCs). S is shift. Thus, C-M-\ is control + meta (alt) + backslash at the same time. Martin