On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Apr 19, 2012, at 10:58 PM, Andy Bradford wrote:
>
> > Thus said Dave Smith on Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:13:13 MDT:
> >
> >> If I have an existing block of code that I want to wrap in an "if"
> >> statement, I have to manually indent the whole block (thank goodness
> >> for Vim's Ctrl+v and Shift+i).
> >
> > No you don't, it's quite easy in vi (not even vim is required for this)
> > to mark the beginning of a block, mark the end of the block, and then
> > just use an ex command to indent it. For example, insert your if
> > expression: and then move to the next line (j), the first part of the
> > block, press ma, move to the last part of the block, press mb, then ex
> > it with:
> >
> > :'a,'bs/^/<tab>/
> >
> > And now you know how to edit and indent blocks of python code with vi
> > (and vim if you please). This is no more work than you suggested for
> > wrapping C++ code with an if {}.
>
> And how do I jump to the bottom of a Python block?
>
> Will something like this
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=386 work?
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