Jim Freeze wrote: > Vincent Foley <gnuvince / yahoo.ca> wrote in message news:<20011201123239.A2609 / vincent>... > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:18:41AM +0900, Niko Schwarz wrote: > > > > Side note: with vim6, I've never had to hit the tab or the backspace key > > > > yet. > > > OK. So, to select code, you can use visual mode (v) or line visual mode > > (V). Then, once your lines are selected, you can use the < or > > > operator to indent backward or forward. If you want to indent just one > > line, put your cursor on that line (not in visual mode) and use << or >> > > depending on the direction. > > How do you control the amount a single indent is? > I have ts=2 (a tab is two spaces), but when I use < or > > I get 8 spaces. set shiftwidth=2 " set expandtab " if you want to replace tabs with spaces Regards, Michael -- Michael Neumann merlin.zwo InfoDesign GmbH http://www.merlin-zwo.de