[climacs-devel] indent-line and left-sticky-marks

[Robert Strandh]

Aleksandar Bakic writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > If the mark passed to indent-line is a left-sticky-mark, indent-line will fill
 > tabs-then-spaces from right to left. For example, if tab-width is 4 and
 > indentation is 5, the result of calling indent-line with a left-sticky-mark
 > starts with a space followed by a tab. Is this OK, or should it rather work
 > like tabify-region, which replaces right-side spaces with tabs?

The latter, I would say.  The thing would be to pas a type argument to
clone-mark so that it is clear that it will be a right-sticky mark.

-- 
Robert Strandh

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