From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Indenting paragraphs manually
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 00:17:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikY9vi0EQf-g3HyUv=0smRCj2nBwFsGoGB6y2an@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi!
I'm looking for a simple way of indenting paragraphs manually (in text
modes), and I've just read this node of the Emacs Manual: (info "(emacs)
Indentation"). It explains, among other things, the general behavior of
the <TAB> key in text modes:
In text modes, <TAB> inserts some combination of space and tab
characters to advance point to the next tab stop (*note Tab Stops).
If the region is active and spans multiple lines, it advances the first
character of each of those lines to the next tab stop (*note Using
Region). [...]
I'm used to that behavior in other editors, and I like it, but
is not what I currently see in Emacs. e.g.:
- Start Emacs (emacs -Q)
- Set text-mode in the *scratch* buffer. (text-mode).
- Set transient-mark-mode on. (transient-mark-mode 1).
- Select the first 3 lines.
- Type <TAB>
What I was expecting:
- The selected lines move to the next tab-stop.
- The region remains active, so that I can repeat the indentation
several times in a row.
What I see:
- The selected lines are not not moved at all.
- The region is deactivated.
Please, could someone explain this? Am I missing something? (I guess I
am, and that's why I'm posting to help-gnu-emacs instead of
bug-gnu-emacs)
TIA
---
Dani Moncayo
In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.22.0)
of 2011-02-26 on dani-P5PL2
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10900000
next reply other threads:[~2011-03-04 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-04 23:17 Dani Moncayo [this message]
2011-03-05 20:26 ` Indenting paragraphs manually Andrea Crotti
2011-03-05 22:23 ` Harry Putnam
2011-03-06 11:47 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-03-06 13:50 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-03-06 14:12 ` Dani Moncayo
[not found] ` <mailman.1.1299419427.17199.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-06 14:18 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-07 5:04 ` Le Wang
2011-03-07 7:32 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-03-05 22:01 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-03-06 11:50 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-03-05 23:28 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-03-06 2:29 ` Le Wang
2011-03-06 3:08 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-03-06 8:37 ` Le Wang
[not found] ` <mailman.4.1299367745.22865.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-06 8:18 ` rusi
2011-03-06 9:10 ` Le Wang
2011-03-06 16:30 ` I filed two bug reports (was: Re: Indenting paragraphs manually) Gregor Zattler
2011-03-06 16:50 ` Dani Moncayo
[not found] ` <mailman.16.1299356823.24947.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-06 17:58 ` Indenting paragraphs manually Uday Reddy
2011-03-06 19:17 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-03-06 19:27 ` Teemu Likonen
2011-03-06 19:42 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-03-06 20:26 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-06 20:57 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-03-06 21:42 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-07 21:58 ` Perry Smith
2011-03-07 22:14 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-06 21:44 ` Teemu Likonen
2011-03-07 8:18 ` Teemu Likonen
2011-03-07 13:42 ` Le Wang
2011-03-07 14:38 ` Le Wang
2011-03-07 14:52 ` Teemu Likonen
2011-03-07 15:13 ` Drew Adams
2011-03-07 15:04 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.14.1299485912.29721.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-07 16:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-07 17:02 ` Teemu Likonen
2011-03-06 19:44 ` Drew Adams
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