Thanks for the suggestion. Please find attached the improved patch.

Regards,
Federico


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Nicolas Goaziou
<mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> writes:
>
>> +  (save-excursion
>> +    (org-mark-element)
>> +    (org-indent-region (point) (mark))))
>
> The function shouldn't set the mark. The following should be enough:
>
>
>   (let ((element (org-element-at-point)))
>     (when element
>       (org-indent-region (org-element-property :begin element)
>                          (org-element-property :end element))))
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou