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diff man/indent.texi @ 68547:e709385ba493
Minor clarifications.
author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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date | Thu, 02 Feb 2006 04:35:19 +0000 |
parents | 3723093a21fd |
children | dc2d5a6655a3 d6f8fe3307c8 |
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--- a/man/indent.texi Thu Feb 02 04:34:46 2006 +0000 +++ b/man/indent.texi Thu Feb 02 04:35:19 2006 +0000 @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ A tab character is displayed as a stretch of whitespace which extends to the next display tab stop position, and the default width of a tab -stop is eight. @xref{Display Custom}, for more details. +stop is eight. @xref{Text Display}, for more details. @item Insert whitespace up to the next tab stop. You can set tab stops at @@ -114,13 +114,13 @@ @kindex M-^ @findex delete-indentation To join two lines cleanly, use the @kbd{M-^} -(@code{delete-indentation}) command. It deletes the indentation at the -front of the current line, and the line boundary as well, replacing them -with a single space. As a special case (useful for Lisp code) the -single space is omitted if the characters to be joined are consecutive -open parentheses or closing parentheses, or if the junction follows -another newline. To delete just the indentation of a line, go to the -beginning of the line and use @kbd{M-\} +(@code{delete-indentation}) command. It deletes the indentation at +the front of the current line, and the line boundary as well, +replacing them with a single space. As a special case (useful for +Lisp code) the single space is omitted if the characters to be joined +are consecutive open parentheses or closing parentheses, or if the +junction follows another newline. To delete just the indentation of a +line, go to the beginning of the line and use @kbd{M-\} (@code{delete-horizontal-space}), which deletes all spaces and tabs around the cursor. @@ -140,12 +140,12 @@ that column. @kbd{C-x @key{TAB}} (@code{indent-rigidly}) moves all of the lines in the region right by its argument (left, for negative arguments). The whole group of lines moves rigidly sideways, which is -how the command gets its name.@refill +how the command gets its name. @cindex remove indentation - If you want to remove all indentation from all of the line in the -region, invoke @kbd{C-x @key{TAB}} with a large negative argument, -such as -1000. + To remove all indentation from all of the lines in the region, +invoke @kbd{C-x @key{TAB}} with a large negative argument, such as +-1000. @findex indent-relative @kbd{M-x indent-relative} indents at point based on the previous line