bug#8515: M-x indent-region should skip everything between <pre>-tags.

[Rob Browning]

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The following bug report (or perhaps feature request) was filed with the
Debian tracker, and I wanted to ask your opinion about the issue.

Thanks

Juhapekka Tolvanen writes:

> You reproduce this bug this way:

> 1) Download this HTML-file:

> http://iki.fi/juhtolv/mswordmail.html

> or this:

> http://iki.fi/juhtolv/pelle.html

> 2) Open it with GNU Emacs. nXML-mode should be the major mode.

> 3) Check out, how text between <pre> -tags is not indented.

> 4) Paint whole buffer with key: Ctrl-x h

> 5) Give line-command called indent-region.

> 6) See, how everything between <pre> -tags became indented although it
> is not supposed to.

> Maybe this should be configurable option. Normal Tab-key pressing
> in the beginning of some line between <pre>-tags should cause some kind
> of indentation according to Tabs-vs-Spaces-settings.

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Rob Browning
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