Re: Emacs block indentation

[John A Pershing Jr]

Jaideep Das <jaideep.jdof@gmail.com> writes:

> John A Pershing Jr wrote:

>>  No, the region has not been deselected.  All that has happened is
>> that the "active" flag has been cleared.  The indent/outdent functions
>> ignore the "active" flag.

> How do you reactivate the region.

Exchanging point and mark (C-x C-x, by default) will reactivate the
region.  However, unless you are invoking a function that behaves
differently depending on whether the region is active or not, you
generally don't have to do this.  For instance, in your previous query
about repeatedly in/outdenting the region, it doesn't matter whether the
region is "active" -- it will still get in/outdented.

[I'm beginning to think it was a mistake to turn on transient mark mode
by default; it seems to be generating more confusion than it is worth.]

  -jp