Re: Indent block inline with other blocks is too far

Yes, my query is originally regarding Shift+>, which seemed to be the only way to indent a block of code.

Tab and spacebar would work on individual lines, but not highlighted blocks.

Ultimately, I need the block to indent 2 spaces to match previous code's indentation so the code and file functions.

How to indent highlight code is the main question then, regardless if it's Spacebar, Tab or Shift+>.

According to :h 30.5, spacebar is best practice, to avoid trouble with programs that use a different tabstop value.

However having to manually spacebar multiple lines in my highlighted block is time consuming and manually messy.

For now, tabs have been set to 2 spaces, which has carried over to the Shift+> functionality.

On Sunday, 29 June 2025 at 07:47:53 UTC+2 Christian Brabandt wrote:

Hi,

There is extensive documentation and guidance around how to use tabs in the user manual at 

:h 30.5

Thanks 

Chris

Am 28.06.2025 um 09:20 schrieb K otgc <kontheg...@gmail.com>:

Just entering :set sw=2 in .vimrc leaves tabbing at 8 spaces.

The post 27 Jun 2025, 15:25:24 with 3 lines of code, is the only code that works to affect tabbing at 2 spaces.

On Friday, 27 June 2025 at 18:30:52 UTC+2 Gary Johnson wrote:

On 2025-06-27, K otgc wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm indenting a code block by highlighting the block and then selecting the
> greater than key.
> However this indents the block 8 spaces, which is too far past the other code
> blocks, which are only 2 spaces indented.
> I am using version: VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Apr 02 2025
> 16:39:51)
> Is there a way to adust the indent please?

Yes. As someone else wrote, see

help >
help 'sw'

and just execute, or put in your vimrc,

:set sw=2

Regards,
Gary

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