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copied!<p>I decided that I was ready to try something new, after a few years of using gEdit for most of my coding needs, and try to learn using Emacs. I knew this would be difficult, as I have heard how complex Emacs can be, but I was lured by its power. The hardest thing has been getting used to writing ELisp in the .emacs file to change things about the editor. I can't currently do it myself, but I have found a few helpful snippets here and there to change some options.</p> <p>One thing I have been having a lot of problems with is getting Emacs to remember the text I have selected after a command. For instance, I commonly highlight a section of code to mass indent it. However, if I do this in Emacs, it will move the selected text only once before unselecting all of the text. Does anyone know a way around this?</p> <p>Anyway, I apologize for what seems to me to be an easy question, but after an hour of Google searching and looking around here on SO, I thought it was worth asking. I have a few more questions about Emacs, but I will save them and ask separately after I get this straightened out. Thanks!</p> <p>UPDATE</p> <p>A few people have asked about what mod I am using and what type of text I am entering. While I don't know much about Emacs modes, I am editing a pure text file at the moment. Something like this:</p> <pre><code>Hello, I am a simple text file that is made up of three separate lines. </code></pre> <p>If I highlight all three lines and hit TAB, I get this:</p> <pre><code> Hello, I am a simple text file that is made up of three separate lines. </code></pre> <p>This is great, however, if I use C-x C-x like some suggest below to reselect the text and hit TAB again, I get this:</p> <pre><code> Hello, I am a simple text file that is made up of three separate lines. </code></pre> <p>I hope this helps!</p>

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