Indenting in Vi
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:author: Aaron Ball
:email: nullspoon@iohq.net

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Just a quick post here. Today I was writing a perl script and I had a 29 line
block of code I wanted to indent. After a bit of research (thanks
stackoverflow), I found what I was looking for.

If you want to indent a block surrounded by braces/brackets, select the top
brace/bracket with the cursor...

Type +<%+ to indent the entire block

Type +<%+ to unindent the entire block

This is without going into insert mode (hint: if vi is actually typing your
commands, hit escape).

To indent based on a number of lines, use the following

Type +5>>+ to indent five lines starting where your cursor is

Type +9>>+ to unindent nine lines starting where your cursor is

I hope that helps someone. It made my day a few notches better, that's for
sure.

That's all for now. Signing out.


Category:Linux
Category:Editors


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