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From: barmar@Think.COM
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: customizing .emacs
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Date: 8 Dec 89 22:52:43 GMT
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In article <14407@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> kwon@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Thomas Kwon) writes:
>I am trying to customize my .emacs file so that it can move some sections
>of a file being edited to the left or right by specified number of
>columns.

That's what the command/function indent-rigidly, which is on c-x c-i by
default, does.  From the online doc:

indent-rigidly:
Indent all lines starting in the region sideways by ARG columns.
Called from a program, takes three arguments, START, END and ARG.
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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