From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8515: M-x indent-region should skip everything between 
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> The following bug report (or perhaps feature request) was filed with the
> Debian tracker, and I wanted to ask your opinion about the issue.

The behavior of auto-indentation within things like 
...
 (or
here-docs in sh scripts, or strings in other languages, ...) is indeed
not perfect, is inconsistent between major modes, and moreover it's
always clear what is the best behavior.

I think what should happen is:
- indent-region should not modify those lines.
- indent-according-to-mode should not modify those lines either.
- indent-for-tab-command should behave as if in text-mode (i.e. call
  something like indent-relative).

Ideally, this should be recognized and treated as a case of "multiple
major modes" and you should even be able to specify what major mode
to use within the 
...
 region, so that the indentation there
can be better than text-mode's.
  

        Stefan