GNU bug report logs - #8187
24.0.50; Regression: TAB does not indent region

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Gregor Zattler <telegraph <at> gmx.net>

Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 16:10:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Gregor Zattler <telegraph <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 8187 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8187: 24.0.50; Regression: TAB does not indent region
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 16:35:40 -0500

>  - 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.  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).
Patches welcome,


        Stefan
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