On 1/20/2011 6:05 PM, Tim Chase wrote:
On 01/20/2011 06:51 PM, Daryl Lee wrote:
Let's say I've decided to wrap an existing region in an if statement,
meaning that region now needs to be indented another 4 spaces. In C I could
select the region and press = and it's done. The only thing I've figured
out in Python is to select the region and do
:'<,'>s/^/ /
I haven't had to do that since I used "ed" :)
It looks like you're using PEP-8 "4-spaces per indent" (instead of 1-tab or
some other increment of spaces), so you want to set your 'shiftwidth' and
'expandtab' settings accordingly:
:set sw=4 et
You can then use the "<" and ">" operators to indent/dedent over a motion
such as
>ip
to indent the "inner paragraph" or
3<<
to dedent 3 lines by one 'shiftwidth'. You can also use them in visual mode
to indent/dedent the selected text. For more information, you can read up at:
:help 'sw'
:h 'et'
:h >
:h v_>
My ">ip" presumes you're familiar with text-objects:
:help text-objects
which, if you're not, are something that drives me nuts in other editors
when I *don't* have them. They're killer for productivity.
-tim
Thanks to both Tim and AK. This gives me just what I was looking for. I
never cease to be amazed at how much power Vim has. And just to set the
record straight, I have the tabs behavior set, I just didn't know the
command(s) that would take proper advantage of them. Thanks again.
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Daryl Lee
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