Let's suppose you're making changes to your code in emacs and... now your code indentation is all out of whack. It would be too laborious to re-do the indentation manually. Rest assured, you can easily have the whole file automatically re-indented in emacs, as described in a StackExchange question (see reference 1). The command for this is first to select the entire file, then to tell it to re-indent the region, as follows: Select the entire file: ctrl-x h Re-do the auto-indentation: alt-x indent-region The correct Emacs terminology is M-x indent-region, but I've called it alt-x here because that's the exact keys I would press on a PC keyboard. Cited sources: 1. Can I have emacs automatically indent my whole code after it is all written? Stack Exchange.
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