TIL: Changing indentation in Vim

For a while, I’d often used this set of Vim keystrokes: gg=G. These keystrokes autoindent for the whole file.

Editing a lot of Ansible .yml with VIM has led to me needing to indent and unindent individual lines much more frequently.

To indent just the current line one step use >>. To unindent the current line one step use <<.

These commands also work with the usual Vim movement and visual selection commands. So Vjjj> will indent four lines one step. The keystrokes 4>> similarly indents 4 lines.

You can also use == to indent just the current line according to your autoindent settings. The = command can also be combined with visual block selection or motions.

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