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• Indenting in Vim (Score:1)

  by Dom2 (2981)

  I kind of like Vim's indenting, although I also find it useful to use perltidy as a pipe, to really clean things up properly.

  Useful commands:

  • =} - Indent to next blank line.
  • =aB - Indent this "block".
  • ^T - (insert mode) Move to next indent.
  • ^D - (insert mode) Move to previous indent.
  • !}perltidy -q - Filter paragraph through perltidy.
  • !aBperltidy -q - Filter block through perltidy.

  Actually, the commands beginning with '=' there are only in Vim 6.1 and higher. I have this in my ~/.vimrc to enabl
  • Re:Indenting in Vim (Score:2)

    by petdance (2468)

    Also, for those using vim, not gvim, shift-V starts a line block, and ctrl-V does a column block. I use it constantly.

    I also like to justify my (non-code) text fairly often, so I do plenty of :!fmt on those blocks.

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    • Re:Indenting in Vim (Score:1)

      by Dom2 (2981) <{dom} {at} {happygiraffe.net}> on 2002.08.23 10:29 (#12116) Homepage Journal

      I tend to use gqap rather than fmt these days. fmt is a little inflexible...

      Of course, if I were a real fanatic, I'd be using DCONWAY's Text::AutoFormat [cpan.org].

      -Dom

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      • Re:Indenting in Vim (Score:2)

        by petdance (2468)

        I tend to use gqap rather than fmt these days. fmt is a little inflexible...

        I didn't know about :gqap. Thanks for the pointer.

        Of course, if I were a real fanatic, I'd be using DCONWAY's Text::AutoFormat.

        Don't think I didn't consider it... :-)

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