Indenting two spaces a selection (visual mode) in vim?

Question

Say I have this code:

var users = [
  { name: 'TJ', email: 'tj@earnboost.com' },
  { name: 'Loki', email: 'loki@earnboost.com' },
  { name: 'Jane', email: 'jane@earnboost.com' }
  ];

I want to select the three lines inside the variable (in visual mode) and indent it two spaces:

var users = [
    { name: 'TJ', email: 'tj@earnboost.com' },
    { name: 'Loki', email: 'loki@earnboost.com' },
    { name: 'Jane', email: 'jane@earnboost.com' }
  ];

How can I accomplish that in vim?

Michael Krelin - hacker · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-27T08:26:20.267

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Provided your sw is two, you can do visually select three lines (V) and do a >. You can also select column of one space and three lines (ctrl-v), hit s and replace the said space with three spaces, then hit esc and all three lines will benefit from this improvements. And there are more ways I'm sure. Normally, you'd do the > and have your sw set to whatever indentation you want in your code.

edited Oct 27 '11 at 08:26

answered Oct 27 '11 at 07:59

Michael Krelin - hacker

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in visual mode, you need a single `>`. Also, in block visual capital `A` and `I` are better than `s` or `c` if you need to append/insert and not replace. – Benoit Oct 27 '11 at 08:13
Correct on both accounts. The first one, I fixed, the second left as is, because what I've written is not *wrong* :) But thanks. – Michael Krelin - hacker Oct 27 '11 at 08:27
Try also `%vi[k>` Normal mode command (assuming that the cursor is on the `var users`-line). – ib. Oct 27 '11 at 08:59
ib, that would sure do, but this is, basically a macro to record ;-) – Michael Krelin - hacker Oct 27 '11 at 09:06
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I had to use `set sw=2` first to get the two spaces, in case anyone didn't know how to set the space width :) – Matt Fletcher Feb 21 '14 at 12:59

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 08 '16 at 04:44

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after you select lines in visual mode. enter ":", the "'<,'>" will auto added, then enter norm I and two space(space key).

:'<,'>norm I<space><space>

answered Dec 08 '16 at 04:44

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This did exactly what I needed. It bumps every line to the right X number of spaces. Thanks. – harperville Sep 06 '17 at 18:04

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 27 '11 at 08:15

Youre friend here are :le and :ri:

:[range]ri[ght] [width]                                 :ri :right  

     Right-align lines in [range] at [width] columns
     (default 'textwidth' or 80 when 'textwidth' is 0). 
     {not in Vi}

:[range]le[ft] [indent]                                 :le :left     

       Left-align lines in [range].  Sets the indent in the        
       lines to [indent] (default 0).  {not in Vi}

Thus just visually select your lines, and then execute one of the aboves like:

:'<,'>ri 2

or

:'<,'>le 5

(Note: the '<,'> part is automatically created by VIM, it's the content that you have visually selected)

The numbers 2 and 5 are just examples btw. You need to change them :) — Fatih Arslan, Oct 27 '11 at 08:19
That is not indenting. It will mess up existing levels of indentation in the selected text. — Cedric Meury, Jan 15 '14 at 14:41

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 27 '11 at 08:08

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For indenting a block between { and } (or between (), []) the way it should be indented, I use =% with the cursor on the first { (resp. (, [).

For indenting 3 lines to the right, I use 3>> with the cursor on the first line.

answered Oct 27 '11 at 08:08

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