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indent-rigidly-reverse

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (Emacs bug Tracking System)
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: bug#878 closed by Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> (Re: 
 bug#878: indent-rigidly-reverse)

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#878: indent-rigidly-reverse

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: 878-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#878: indent-rigidly-reverse
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:00:15 -0400

>> Hitting C-x e over and over is much harder than e.g., C-x C-e, which
> In Emacs-22, both C-x z and C-x e can be repeated with "C-x z z z z z"
> or "C-x e e e e e".  Both are solutions to your problem:

> C-u - 1 C-x C-i C-x z z z z z z z z

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: indent-rigidly-reverse
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:54:36 +0800

indent-rigidly is great, as I hit C-x C-i over and over, the lines
more further and further to the right.

OK, now I hereby challenge you to move those lines slowly back the
other way in the same fashion. Simple you say: use an argument of -1.
But then it becomes a giant pain trying to do that over and over.

OK, one could make a keyboard macro to do it, but still no fun.
Hitting C-x e over and over is much harder than e.g., C-x C-e, which
often one hits by accident when trying to hit the former.

Therefore you should implement a indent-rigidly-reverse and bind it to
some key, else you are offering one-way joyrides.

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