From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Dani Moncayo'" <dmoncayo@gmail.com>,
"'Uday Reddy'" <uDOTsDOTreddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Indenting paragraphs manually
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 11:44:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E6F1A3472B0D4403B75DB48C5C1B6BB1@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimJoOTm2aAGqVjF7U-AB3gmWpvWF0yp4PGD3Ww7@mail.gmail.com>
> The way you've mentioned works, but IMO it has two drawbacks:
> - It is a bit cumbersome to type C-u _number_ C-x <TAB> each time you
> want to indent a paragraph.
C-u 3 C-x TAB C-x z z z z ...
indents 3 chars each time you hit z
> - It is not "interactive": i.e. Many times you don't know beforehand
> the value of _number_. So, it would be nice if you could make
> several indentations in a row while seeing the new position of the
> text at the end of each one.
If you don't know the number of chars to indent, then start with 1:
C-x TAB C-x z z z ...
It is easy to hold down `z', no?
And if you go too far, hit `C-- C-x z z z...' to come back.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-06 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-04 23:17 Indenting paragraphs manually Dani Moncayo
2011-03-05 20:26 ` 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 [this message]
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