Indenting with Vi

Indenting with Vi

OK I keep forgetting all these tricks, but make sure to turn autoindent on and then you get nice indenting. So with the > and < to indent forward, there is CTRL-T to indent and CTRL-D to outdent. Then you get these tricks.

Where you combine those operators with % which says go to the first bracket or brace. Then there is the = operator which says reindent that you can combine as well

>>   Indent line by shiftwidth spaces
<<   De-indent line by shiftwidth spaces
5>>  Indent 5 lines
5==  Re-indent 5 lines

>%   Increase indent of a braced or bracketed block (place cursor on brace first)
=%   Reindent a braced or bracketed block (cursor on brace)
<%   Decrease indent of a braced or bracketed block (cursor on brace)
]p   Paste text, aligning indentation with surroundings

=i{  Re-indent the 'inner block', i.e. the contents of the block
=a{  Re-indent 'a block', i.e. block and containing braces
=2a{ Re-indent '2 blocks', i.e. this block and containing block

>i{  Increase inner block indent
<i{  Decrease inner block indent

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