Revisions to How to shift a selected area of text in Emacs by a certain number of spaces?

Whoops -- meant to link to the Emacs manual on prefix args, not the Elisp manual.

edited Feb 21, 2015 at 19:06

Use command indent-rigidly, which is bound to C-x TAB by default.

You can specify the number of spaces to indent by using a prefix argument prefix argument, such as C-5 C-x TAB.

Or you can invoke the command and then use the left/right arrows to interactively adjust the indent level.

Use command indent-rigidly, which is bound to C-x TAB by default.

You can specify the number of spaces to indent by using a prefix argument, such as C-5 C-x TAB.

Or you can invoke the command and then use the left/right arrows to interactively adjust the indent level.

Use command indent-rigidly, which is bound to C-x TAB by default.

You can specify the number of spaces to indent by using a prefix argument, such as C-5 C-x TAB.

Or you can invoke the command and then use the left/right arrows to interactively adjust the indent level.

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edited Feb 21, 2015 at 19:00

Use command indent-rigidly, which is bound to C-x TAB by default.

You can provide a prefix argument or interactively adjustspecify the number of spaces to indent by using a prefix argument, such as C-5 C-x TAB.

Or you can invoke the command and then use the left/right arrows to interactively adjust the indent level.

Use command indent-rigidly, which is bound to C-x TAB by default.

You can provide a prefix argument or interactively adjust the number of spaces.

Use command indent-rigidly, which is bound to C-x TAB by default.

You can specify the number of spaces to indent by using a prefix argument, such as C-5 C-x TAB.

Or you can invoke the command and then use the left/right arrows to interactively adjust the indent level.

answered Feb 21, 2015 at 18:43

Use command indent-rigidly, which is bound to C-x TAB by default.

You can provide a prefix argument or interactively adjust the number of spaces.

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