indentation question

indentation question

[Ye ilho]

Hi everyone,

Please bear with me if I ask a silly question but I am looking for
some way to indent a block. For example, if I have a block
    aaaa
    bbbb
    cccc

Now, I want to bring this block to the left all togther. I have spent
about an hour so far but I could not find a way to do this. I know
this sounds so silly but any help will be really appreciated. Thanks.

Ilho <><
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Re: indentation question

[Kevin Rodgers]

Ye ilho wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Please bear with me if I ask a silly question but I am looking for
> some way to indent a block. For example, if I have a block
>    aaaa
>    bbbb
>    cccc
> 
> Now, I want to bring this block to the left all togther. I have spent
> about an hour so far but I could not find a way to do this. I know
> this sounds so silly but any help will be really appreciated. Thanks.

M-0 C-M-\

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

Re: indentation question

[Matthew Flaschen]

Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> Ye ilho wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Please bear with me if I ask a silly question but I am looking for
>> some way to indent a block. For example, if I have a block
>>    aaaa
>>    bbbb
>>    cccc
>>
>> Now, I want to bring this block to the left all togther. I have spent
>> about an hour so far but I could not find a way to do this. I know
>> this sounds so silly but any help will be really appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> M-0 C-M-\

Thanks.  I've been unsuccessfully using indent-region for a while.

Matt Flaschen

RE: indentation question

[Drew Adams]

> > Please bear with me if I ask a silly question but I am looking for
> > some way to indent a block. For example, if I have a block
> >    aaaa
> >    bbbb
> >
> > Now, I want to bring this block to the left all togther. I have spent
> > about an hour so far but I could not find a way to do this. I know
> > this sounds so silly but any help will be really appreciated. Thanks.
>
> M-0 C-M-\

Another possibility is `M-- 3 C-x TAB', that is, give `indent-rigidly' an
argument of -3 to indent 3 characters to the left (really outdent). If you
want to outdent all the way, and you don't want to count how many chars that
is, just provide an extra-large argument, such as -99.

`indent-rigidly' and `indent-region' (`C-M-\') are slightly different,
however - check the doc to see which you really want here. In particular,
the arg to `indent-rigidly' is relative (how many chars to indent/outdent);
the arg to `indent-region' is absolute (what column to move the text to).

Re: indentation question

[Matthew Flaschen]

Drew Adams wrote:
>>> Please bear with me if I ask a silly question but I am looking for
>>> some way to indent a block. For example, if I have a block
>>>    aaaa
>>>    bbbb
>>>
>>> Now, I want to bring this block to the left all togther. I have spent
>>> about an hour so far but I could not find a way to do this. I know
>>> this sounds so silly but any help will be really appreciated. Thanks.
>> M-0 C-M-\
> 
> Another possibility is `M-- 3 C-x TAB', that is, give `indent-rigidly' an
> argument of -3 to indent 3 characters to the left (really outdent). If you
> want to outdent all the way, and you don't want to count how many chars that
> is, just provide an extra-large argument, such as -99.

Thanks.  M-- C-x TAB alone also seems to outdent all the way.  That's
undocumented, so maybe it's best not to rely on it.

Matthew Flaschen

Re: indentation question

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 08.03.2007 um 05:43 schrieb Ye ilho:

> For example, if I have a block
>    aaaa
>    bbbb
>    cccc
>
> Now, I want to bring this block to the left all togther.

There are ``rectangle´´ functions in GNU Emacs. They start with C-x  
r, can insert text, an offset, or delete a rectangle.

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Re: indentation question

[Jiri Pejchal]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 08.03.2007 um 05:43 schrieb Ye ilho:
>
>> For example, if I have a block
>>    aaaa
>>    bbbb
>>    cccc
>>
>> Now, I want to bring this block to the left all togther.
>
> There are ``rectangle´´ functions in GNU Emacs. They start with C-x
> r, can insert text, an offset, or delete a rectangle.
>

Another possibility is cua-mode, which has also functions for working
with rectangles (it can even displays the rectangle you are working with
visually).


Jiri Pejchal