almost everytime, I cope e.g. snippets from the web and paste it with M-w in a python buffer the indentation is all wrong. Sometimes slanted to the left, sometimes to the right. Often all of the copied text, sometimes only parts of it. I have this in my config
(global-set-key (kbd "C->") 'indent-rigidly-right-to-tab-stop)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-<") 'indent-rigidly-left-to-tab-stop)
but neither that nor multiple cursors are sufficient in these situations. So I searched for snippets online and included this long piece here
; indent pasted stuff correctly
(dolist (command '(yank yank-pop))
(eval `(defadvice ,command (after indent-region activate)
(and (not current-prefix-arg)
(member major-mode '(emacs-lisp-mode lisp-mode
clojure-mode scheme-mode
haskell-mode ruby-mode
rspec-mode python-mode
c-mode c++-mode
objc-mode latex-mode
plain-tex-mode))
(let ((mark-even-if-inactive transient-mark-mode))
(indent-region (region-beginning) (region-end) nil))))))
still no luck. My python config reads
(use-package python
:mode ("\\.py\\'" . python-mode)
:interpreter ("python" . python-mode)
:config
(progn (setq python-shell-interpreter "python")
(setq python-indent-offset 4)
(setq python-shell-completion-native-disabled-interpreters '("python"))))
So how can I achieve to just paste in code and it is indented and aligned correctly?
Shift region left (C-c <)andShift region right (C-c >)- maybe these are more useful? Does these interfere with yours? Also observed some authors do not respect correct indentation (some at 2, found with 3...) – Ian Nov 23 '19 at 15:28