On 10 19 , 6 20 , "Amy" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could anyone teach me how to indent multiple lines at once? Say there are
> 10 lines that all begin at column 1, is there one command to indent all 10
> lines to begin at column 4?
>
Select all the lines using visual mode by press 'v', then move the
cursor. After you selected all the line you desired, press '=' to
indent.
> Thank you very much in advance. I appreciate your time.
>
> Best,
> Amy

Amy wrote:
> Could anyone teach me how to indent multiple lines at once? Say there are
> 10 lines that all begin at column 1, is there one command to indent all 10
> lines to begin at column 4?

First step, set vi up for multiples of 3 columns:

:set shiftwidth=3

Follow that with by hitting "return". (You can abbreviate "shiftwidth"
to just "sw" if you want.)

Second step, go to the last line of the block and set a mark called "a"
there. You do this by going there (with j or k) and then typing "ma".

Third step, go to the beginning and ask vi to right indent from the current
position to the mark by typing ">'a". Broken down into its components, the
first part (">") says "indent from here to..." and the second part says
"the position I marked as 'a'".

Alternate method: set the shiftwidth, go to the first line, and type "10>>".
The "10" says "repeat the following command 10 times", and the ">>" says
"indent one line of text".

Final method: type ":.,+9s/^/ /" and hit enter. That says to apply the
"s" (substitution) operator to the range "." (current line) through "+9"
(nine lines below current line), and it substitutes 3 spaces ("/ /")
for the empty string occurring at the beginning of line ("/^/").

Note that the first 2 methods work with tabs and adjust the indentation
appropriately, whereas the last method just blindly inserts 3 spaces
regardless of whether the line starts with a tab character or whatever.

- Logan

In our last episode, the evil Dr. Lacto had captured our hero,
"Amy" , who said:

>Could anyone teach me how to indent multiple lines at once? Say there are
>10 lines that all begin at column 1, is there one command to indent all 10
>lines to begin at column 4?

:%s/^/ /

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hymie! wrote:
> In our last episode, the evil Dr. Lacto had captured our hero,
> "Amy" , who said:
>
>> Could anyone teach me how to indent multiple lines at once? Say there are
>> 10 lines that all begin at column 1, is there one command to indent all 10
>> lines to begin at column 4?
>
> :%s/^/ /
>
Well, that does *all* of the lines.

:.,.+10s/^/ /

does just the next 10.

As does
:set sw=4
10>>

Cheers,
Gary B-)

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Thank you for everyone's help. It's good to know different methods. I
really appreciate it.
Amy

"Gary R. Schmidt" wrote in message
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> hymie! wrote:
>> In our last episode, the evil Dr. Lacto had captured our hero,
>> "Amy" , who said:
>>
>>> Could anyone teach me how to indent multiple lines at once? Say there
>>> are 10 lines that all begin at column 1, is there one command to indent
>>> all 10 lines to begin at column 4?
>>
>> :%s/^/ /
>>
> Well, that does *all* of the lines.
>
> :.,.+10s/^/ /
>
> does just the next 10.
>
> As does
> :set sw=4
> 10>>
>
> Cheers,
> Gary B-)
>
> --
> __________________________________________________ ____________________________
> Armful of chairs: Something some people would not know
> whether you were up them with or not
> - Barry Humphries

Amy,

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:20:52 -0700, Amy wrote:
>
> Could anyone teach me how to indent multiple lines at once? Say there are
> 10 lines that all begin at column 1, is there one command to indent all 10
> lines to begin at column 4?

My preferred method is to go to the first line in the paragraph (or
the blank line above it, and ">}". The ">" is indent as others have
pointed out, and "}" means move to the end of the paragraph. You
could likewise start at the bottom and "y{", but for some reason I
never do that.


Mike

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