Python indent region

Python indent region

[Shug Boabby]

Hello all,

As you may know, python recognises blocks of code by their indentation
level. Emacs handles this very well when writing code. However, Emacs
does not handle indenting/unindenting whole regions very well.

I was wondering if somebody could please write me some lisp code that
would add 4 spaces (or the user defined indent character) to the
beginning of each line in a region, and a complementary function to
reduce each line in a region by one indentation level. These would
really help out when doing some code restructuring in Python.

Thanks,
Shug

Re: Python indent region

[Wolfram Kraus]

On 10.07.2006 12:49, Shug Boabby wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> As you may know, python recognises blocks of code by their indentation
> level. Emacs handles this very well when writing code. However, Emacs
> does not handle indenting/unindenting whole regions very well.
> 
> I was wondering if somebody could please write me some lisp code that
> would add 4 spaces (or the user defined indent character) to the
> beginning of each line in a region, and a complementary function to
> reduce each line in a region by one indentation level. These would
> really help out when doing some code restructuring in Python.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shug
> 
In Python-mode
C-c <
C-c >
should do what you want

HTH,
Wolfram

Re: Python indent region

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 10.07.2006 um 13:12 schrieb Wolfram Kraus:

> In Python-mode
> C-c <
> C-c >
> should do what you want

And if these do not do it you can use rectangle functions to cut out  
a block of so many lines height and these few columns width, or  
"open" the marked lines by inserting as many spaces as the mark  
indicates or a particular string.

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Re: Python indent region

[Mathias Dahl]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> And if these do not do it you can use rectangle functions to cut out
> a block of so many lines height and these few columns width, or
> "open" the marked lines by inserting as many spaces as the mark
> indicates or a particular string.

For example C-x r o (open rectangle). You can also use C-x r t STRING
to prefix a rectangle with a string.

And, finally, you can also use C-x TAB to indent region one space at a
time. With a prefix argument you can control the number of spaces and
you can even enter a negative argument to decrease the indentation.

I think you should have enough options now :)