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user1164937
user1164937

Reputation: 2117

Pasting from different space indents

In vim, how do you deal with situations where you copy something that uses 4 spaces as an indent to 2 spaces?

Is there a way I can specify a number so that vim can use the correct indent size?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 56

Answers (2)

romainl
romainl

Reputation: 196856

You can use [p and ]p to put text with the indent of the current line.

See :help ]p.

Upvotes: 1

ChatterOne
ChatterOne

Reputation: 3541

If you have your shiftwidth and tabstop set to 2 already, you can paste the text, select the text you just pasted and re-indent those lines.

Something like:

nnoremap pi p`[v`]=

So using pi will paste your text, select it and re-indent it.

Upvotes: 2

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