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almost everytime, I cope e.g. snippets from the web and paste it with M-w in a python buffer the indentation is all wrong. Sometimes slanted to the left, sometimes to the right. Often all of the copied text, sometimes only parts of it. I have this in my config

(global-set-key (kbd "C->") 'indent-rigidly-right-to-tab-stop) (global-set-key (kbd "C-<") 'indent-rigidly-left-to-tab-stop) 

but neither that nor multiple cursors are sufficient in these situations. So I searched for snippets online and included this long piece here

; indent pasted stuff correctly (dolist (command '(yank yank-pop)) (eval `(defadvice ,command (after indent-region activate) (and (not current-prefix-arg) (member major-mode '(emacs-lisp-mode lisp-mode clojure-mode scheme-mode haskell-mode ruby-mode rspec-mode python-mode c-mode c++-mode objc-mode latex-mode plain-tex-mode)) (let ((mark-even-if-inactive transient-mark-mode)) (indent-region (region-beginning) (region-end) nil)))))) 

still no luck. My python config reads

(use-package python :mode ("\\.py\\'" . python-mode) :interpreter ("python" . python-mode) :config (progn (setq python-shell-interpreter "python") (setq python-indent-offset 4) (setq python-shell-completion-native-disabled-interpreters '("python")))) 

So how can I achieve to just paste in code and it is indented and aligned correctly?

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  • May you provide some example? Ideally from the web source alongside with the results in Emacs buffer? Commented Nov 22, 2019 at 20:18
  • @CD86, please note in menu Emacs | Python you already have two commands - Shift region left (C-c <) and Shift region right (C-c >) - maybe these are more useful? Does these interfere with yours? Also observed some authors do not respect correct indentation (some at 2, found with 3...) Commented Nov 23, 2019 at 15:28

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