Emacs Shift-Tab to left shift the block

Asked 2010-02-12T05:59:35.083

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How can I get Emacs to ShiftTab to move the selected text to the left by 4 spaces?

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To do that, I use the command indent-rigidly, bound to C-x TAB. Give it the argument -4 to move the selected region to the left by four spaces: C-u -4 C-x TAB.

http://www.gnu.org/s/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Region-Indent.html

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Emacs Shift-Tab to left shift the block

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