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From: lattice@iris.mincom.oz.au (Lattice)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi and emacs
Summary: indent altered (not new) code
Keywords: vi emacs
Message-ID: <1152@iris.mincom.oz.au>
Date: 14 Jun 91 03:27:31 GMT
References: <1991Jun1.021505.4043@trl.oz.au> <1991Jun03.151727.9944@chinet.chi.il.us> <1148@iris.mincom.oz.au> <1991Jun11.203851.26928@chinet.chi.il.us>
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In article <1991Jun11.203851.26928@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>>	1. There is no need to use an external program for indentation -
>>	   vi has an autoindent mode, invoked using
>>		:set autoindent
>
>That's fine for typing entirely new code, but what do you do when you
>add or delete a loop surrounding existing code and want the indentation
>fixed?.   I usually just pipe through cb.
>
In this case I would normally mark the top and bottom of the altered block
and use the indent/undent option '>'/'<' respectively, i.e.,

	/* mark the top and bottom of the block as a and b */

	:'a, 'b <	(or >)

I must admit though to having encountered some difficulty with this
method when the tabstops value is set to something other than a full tab.
Still it can be quite adequate.

mark stavar