Re: Indent region

[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> `C-u 10 C-x TAB' or `C-M-\' indent a region `line by line', whereas I want
>> the whole region to be indented, like:
>>
>>     The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the
>>     room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or
>>     never looked through them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her
>>     state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not
>>
>> .  In Emacs manual I couldn't find an answer to the problem.




"B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> writes:

> At beginning of region do:
>
> C-space
>
> move to last line of region
> move cursor rightward as far as you want the region indented
>
> do:
> C-x r o


Thanks, but that's the same as `C-u 10 C-x TAB' or `C-M-\': each line of the
region is indented separately, but not the region all together, as in my
example.

Rodolfo