block indent / dedent in emacs

January 7th, 2007 by Lawrence David

to indent or dedent a block of text in emacs, first set a markpoint:

C-space

move the cursor to the end of the block, and then hit:

C-c->

to indent or

C-c-<

to dedent. Thanks to Chad Netzer for that hint!

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on 23 Aug 2007 at 9:47 am Rob Stewart

FYI: The opposite of “indent” is “outdent,” not “dedent.”
on 29 Oct 2007 at 3:07 pm Victor Trapani

It did not work for me in putty
on 04 Dec 2007 at 1:51 pm Ghen Saito

Try this.

Select region using C-space
C-x-TAB to indent the region
on 25 Jul 2008 at 4:05 am paan

I’m kindda late since the last comment was in 2007 but this is just great!!

This is way better than C-i on each line….
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