From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs block indentation Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:56:59 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <25676078.post@talk.nabble.com> <82tyykpmcv.fsf@alum.mit.edu> <82iqeww9wf.fsf@alum.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255830100 4855 80.91.229.12 (18 Oct 2009 01:41:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:41:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 18 03:41:33 2009 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 1MzKm4-0005lN-M3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:41:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34896 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MzKm4-000810-6t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:41:32 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1255827419 28677 166.84.1.2 (18 Oct 2009 00:56:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:56:59 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:173978 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:69062 Archived-At: In article <82iqeww9wf.fsf@alum.mit.edu>, John A Pershing Jr wrote: >Jaideep Das writes: > >> John A Pershing Jr wrote: > >>> No, the region has not been deselected. All that has happened is >>> that the "active" flag has been cleared. The indent/outdent functions >>> ignore the "active" flag. > >> How do you reactivate the region. > >Exchanging point and mark (C-x C-x, by default) will reactivate the >region. However, unless you are invoking a function that behaves >differently depending on whether the region is active or not, you >generally don't have to do this. For instance, in your previous query >about repeatedly in/outdenting the region, it doesn't matter whether the >region is "active" -- it will still get in/outdented. > >[I'm beginning to think it was a mistake to turn on transient mark mode >by default; it seems to be generating more confusion than it is worth.] > > -jp Someone please comment on that final sentence, re transient-mark-mode. Thanks! David