Re: [OT Personal Memory failure] Can someone remind me how to formatcode

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"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> I know there is a keyboard command in emacs that will format a region
>> of some common kinds of code such as shell script, emacs lisp, perl
>> etc.
>> I recall having marked out a region then using some keyboard combo to
>> format it.
>>
>> M-x apropos RET format RET   gives far to many confusion hits to find
>> what I want.
>
> If by "format" you mean reindent in a conventional way, then try `C-M-q'
> with the cursor at the beginning of a code section (e.g. defun in Lisp).

Thanks but having some trouble with that.

That does not appear for me under C-h b and search for C-M-q.  What is
that command called?

C-h-c  doesn't know about it here either.

When I just use the keys you mention it gets confused with a call to
KDE and brings up the KDE control application.

Going to a text console and trying C-M-q while editing a shell script
say C-M-q is not defined.

Trying M-x reindent<spc><spc> etc  appears to bring the wrong thing as
well.  `reindent-then-newline-and-indent'

Version:
GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.7) of
2007-06-24 on reader