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bug#8187: 24.0.50; Regression: TAB does not indent region
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Gregor Zattler |
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bug#8187: 24.0.50; Regression: TAB does not indent region |
Date: |
Mon, 7 Mar 2011 00:11:05 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) |
Hi Stefan,
* Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> [06. Mar. 2011]:
>> - Set text-mode in the *scratch* buffer. (text-mode).
>> - Select the first 3 lines.
>> - Type <TAB>
> [...]
>> I think, this is a regression.
>
> Using `indent-region' in Emacs-23 in a text-mode buffer results in
> a "staircase" effect (tho it depends whether the text was originally
> indented and how), so the Emacs-24 behavior is not really a regression,
> just a different failure by deactivating a chunk of code which didn't do
> the right thing.
O.K. I didn't see this.
> We should probably add an indent-region-function in
> text-mode which does (more or less) what you expect (probably it should
> do what TAB does on the first line and then apply the same indent step
> to all subsequent lines).
Sounds good to mee, but:
> Patches welcome,
that I'm not able to do.
Thanks, Gregor
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