Re: inserting a space in front of all lines

[Jeffery B. Rancier]

Jade Dang <jaddang@cisco.com> writes:

> I have a file with thousands of lines and I want to indent all of
> them. Is there an easy way to do this?

,----[ C-h k C-x h ]
| C-x h runs the command mark-whole-buffer
|    which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple'.
| (mark-whole-buffer)
| 
| Put point at beginning and mark at end of buffer.
| You probably should not use this function in Lisp programs;
| it is usually a mistake for a Lisp function to use any subroutine
| that uses or sets the mark.
`----

followed by:

,----[ C-h f indent-region RET ]
| indent-region is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `indent'.
| (indent-region START END COLUMN)
| 
| Indent each nonblank line in the region.
| With prefix no argument, indent each line using `indent-according-to-mode',
| or use `indent-region-function' to do the whole region if that's non-nil.
| If there is a fill prefix, make each line start with the fill prefix.
| With argument COLUMN, indent each line to that column.
| 
| When you call this from a program, START and END specify
| the region to indent, and COLUMN specifies the indentation column.
| If COLUMN is nil, then indent each line according to the mode.
`----
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Thanks,
Jeff