Re: Indenting paragraphs manually

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 06.03.2011 um 12:47 schrieb Dani Moncayo:
>
>> Based on the manual section I quoted before, What is exactly my
>> misunderstanding? I think it says that selecting multiple lines *in a
>> text mode buffer* and hitting <TAB> should produce an indentation of
>> every line. Isn't that right?
>
>
> The *scratch* buffer is not a text-mode buffer (it is meant for Elisp
> code scratches, for testing programme code for GNU Emacs). Open <some
> file>.txt and see again!

As soon as you type M-x text-mode RET in the *scratch* buffer, it
becomes a text buffer.

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