Indent/Unindent a block

[Gabor Urban]

Hi guys,

I have a minor problem: is there a possibility to indent / unindent a
block of code?

Thanks in advance,
Gabor Urban

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[Ivan Sichmann Freitas]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Gabor Urban <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have a minor problem: is there a possibility to indent / unindent a
> block of code?

Yes. You can use some regex magic with :s command, but usually a
plugin is better. For instance, I use enhancedcommentify
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=23 , but there are
others available also.


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[Tim Chase]

On 07/08/2011 04:25 AM, Gabor Urban wrote:
> I have a minor problem: is there a possibility to indent /
> unindent a block of code?

Of course :)  Vim uses the ">" and "<" operators to shift by
'shiftwidth' and uses tabs-vs-spaces as controlled by the
'expandtab' setting:

   :help >
   :help 'sw'
   :help 'et'

Depending on how you define your "block", you can use a variety
of Vim's motions such as using the ">" and "<" in visual-mode to
do a visual selection; using text objects; using "%" to jump to a
matching item (paren/bracket/brace); or any other motion that
covers the

   :help v_>
   :help aB
   :help i}
   :help text-objects
   :help {motion}

So if you're in a "{...}" block of code, you can issue

   >i}

to indent the contents of the braces.

-tim


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[Ivan Sichmann Freitas]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Tim Chase <[hidden email]> wrote:
> On 07/08/2011 04:25 AM, Gabor Urban wrote:
>>
>> I have a minor problem: is there a possibility to indent /
>> unindent a block of code?

Ops, seems I mistook indent for comment. My bad.

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[Tim Chase]

On 07/08/2011 06:23 AM, Ivan S. Freitas wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Tim Chase<[hidden email]>  wrote:
>> On 07/08/2011 04:25 AM, Gabor Urban wrote:
>>> I have a minor problem: is there a possibility to indent /
>>> unindent a block of code?
>
> Ops, seems I mistook indent for comment. My bad.

Ah...well that's different ;-)

http://www.vim.org/script.php?script_id=23

is the somewhat go-to solution for commenting blocks of code.
Because commenting varies from source to source (C "/* ... */
blocks vs. C inline "//"; shell-script "#" comments; .ini file
";" comments; batch-file "REM" comments; Vim's double-quote
comments; etc) it requires a bit of smarts to know what your
particular is.

-tim




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