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Reputation: 392

indent keywords or a specific selection of lines in vim

How do you indent a specific selection of lines in vim, for example line 1, 5 and 6.

Also is their a way to indent lines begining with a certain keyword. For example search for all words begining with def and indent it.

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 133

Answers (2)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172520

To indent line 1, 5 and 6, you can concatenate multiple :>> commands in a single command-line:

:1>>|5,6>>

The :global command allows to indent (the same applies to all other Ex commands, too) only lines matching a pattern.

:g/def/>>

Upvotes: 1

suspectus
suspectus

Reputation: 17258

To indent line 7

 :7 >>

To indent the range of lines 3-5 (indents lines 3,4 and 5)

:3,5 >>

Search for def and indent all matches use the global command g:

:g /def/ >>

Upvotes: 1

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