[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] Unit movement

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 07:59:39PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Raimar Falke (hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> 
> > I can't use indent for the reasons stated below. And I don't know a
> > tool which will ident only a part of a file or a patch.
> 
> The GNU version of indent, at least, can read from standard input and write
> to standard output.  Therefore you can do it in vi.
> 
> ma                -> set mark "a"
> !'aindent <Enter> -> pipe the block of text from the cursor to mark "a"
>                    through indent and replace it with the output thereof
> 

Thanks for pointing this out. Since indent only sees some part of the
code it doesn't know the starting level. Nevertheless its better than
nothing.

> Although I don't know emacs very well, I'd be surprised if it can't do
> the same thing.

shell-command-on-region

        Raimar

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