{"id":13245,"date":"2025-09-03T11:41:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=13245"},"modified":"2025-09-03T11:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T15:41:17","slug":"diverted-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=13245","title":{"rendered":"Diverted Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\u00c1lvaro Ram\u00edrez and James Dyer have a problem. The same problem. They sometimes need to reindent a region or the entire buffer. That’s easy enough to do. You can select the entire buffer with Ctrl<\/kbd>+x<\/kbd> h<\/kbd> or select the region you want to indent if it’s not the entire buffer and then call indent-region<\/code>, bound to Ctrl<\/kbd>+Meta<\/kbd>+\\<\/kbd> by default.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe problem is the current mark and point are destroyed. It would be better to have them restored after the reindent operation. Dyer has an easy solution<\/a> for the case where you want to reindent the whole buffer. It’s just a few lines of Elisp that you can add to your init.el<\/code> and bind to a convenient key.\n<\/p>\n

\nRam\u00edrez took a more general approach<\/a>. He, too, had the problem when indenting the entire buffer but also when reindenting a function or the result of expand-region<\/a>. His idea was to implement diverted-mode<\/code> that recognizes mark-defun<\/code>, mark-whole-buffer<\/code>, and er\/expand-region<\/code> and restore the point and mark afterwards.\n<\/p>\n

\nBoth solutions are nice. If you mostly just want to reindent the entire buffer, copy Dyer’s code into your init.el<\/code> and be done with it. If your reindentation needs are more complex, take a look at Ram\u00edrez’s solution. It’s easy to specify additional conditions for diverted-mode<\/code> as your needs grow.\n<\/p>\n

\nMaybe this never seemed like a problem to you but if it did, these two solutions are good ways of dealing with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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