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1 Indenting in Vi
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3 :author: Aaron Ball
4 :email: nullspoon@iohq.net
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6 == {doctitle}
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8 Just a quick post here. Today I was writing a perl script and I had a 29 line
9 block of code I wanted to indent. After a bit of research (thanks
10 stackoverflow), I found what I was looking for.
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12 If you want to indent a block surrounded by braces/brackets, select the top
13 brace/bracket with the cursor...
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15 Type +<%+ to indent the entire block
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17 Type +<%+ to unindent the entire block
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19 This is without going into insert mode (hint: if vi is actually typing your
20 commands, hit escape).
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22 To indent based on a number of lines, use the following
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24 Type +5>>+ to indent five lines starting where your cursor is
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26 Type +9>>+ to unindent nine lines starting where your cursor is
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28 I hope that helps someone. It made my day a few notches better, that's for
29 sure.
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31 That's all for now. Signing out.
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34 Category:Linux
35 Category:Editors
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38 // vim: set syntax=asciidoc:
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