Shift a region or line in emacs

emacs indentation text-manipulation
fikovnik picture fikovnik · Jul 1, 2010 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

I'm looking for a way in emacs to shift text to the right or to the left by n spaces. A similar functionality that it in vim << or >>. It should work on a region or if no region is selected on a current line and not move the cursor from its current location.

The solution from EmacsWiki does not work very well as the M-x indent-rigidly since it somewhat remembers the last region used and shifts that one instead. The closest seems to be the one here but I did not managed to make it work. I'm not a lisp developer so it's difficult to modify the code. I will appreciate any help.

Thanks!

Answer

ychaouche picture ychaouche · Oct 30, 2012

You could select the region then C-u C-x <tab> will shift 4 spaces. You can type a number after C-u to change 4 to anything else.

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