Re: how to indent a region multiple times in python-mode

[Dave Kuhlman <dkuhlman@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 01:26:12PM +0200, Olesen, Mark wrote:
> Servus Joachim,
> 
> For this sort of thing, I use a rectangle string insertion.
> Mark the begin/end of a region and then insert the desired string via the
> mini-buffer.

Yes, but ... python-mode in jed already has indent and out-dent
operations: py_shift_region_left and py_shift_region_right, bound to
^C < and ^C >, which indent and out-dent a region *once*.

Almost any other programmers editor will enable me to mark a
region and then indent or out-dent that region multiple times.  The
reason that jed will not let me do this is that jed forgets (pops?)
the mark when I do ^C < or ^C >.

I have not figured out how to tell jed not to do this.  Basically,
I'd like to be able to tell jed: please do not forget where the
mark is when I do py_shift_region_left or py_shift_region_right.

Big/real emacs (I use jed's emacs mode) in python-mode remembers
where the mark and region are when I indent and out-dent enabling
me to do it multiple times.

Is there a way to get jed to remember the region/mark?

Here is the relevant (I believe) code from pymode.sl.  Perhaps
someone can suggest how to modify it so that the region or mark are
remembered:

    define py_shift_region_left()
    {
       variable n;

       check_region (1);
       n = what_line ();
       pop_mark_1 ();
       loop (n - what_line ())
         {
        py_shift_line_left();
        go_down_1 ();
         }
       pop_spot();
    }

This is a *very* small wart.  But, jed does everything else so
well, that it would be nice to have this one fixed too.

Dave

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