In Vim, what is the command to correct the indentation of all the lines?
Often times I'll copy and paste code into a remote terminal and have the whole thing messed up. I want to fix this in one fell swoop.
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=, the indent command can take motions. So, gg to get the start of the file, = to indent, G to the end of the file, gg=G.
Before pasting into the terminal, try :set paste and then :set nopaste after you're done. This will turn off the auto-indent, line-wrap and other features that are messing up your paste.
edit: Also, I should point out that a much better result than = indenting can usually be obtained by using an external program. For example, I run :%!perltidy all the time. astyle, cindent, etc. can also be used. And, of course, you can map those to a key stroke, and map different ones to the same keystroke depending on file type.
You can use tidy application/utility to indent HTML & XML files and it works pretty well in indenting those files.
Prettify an XML file
:!tidy -mi -xml %
Prettify an HTML file
:!tidy -mi -html %
1G=G. That should indent all the lines in the file. 1G takes you the first line, = will start the auto-indent and the final G will take you the last line in the file.
if you do not want to use :set paste, middle-click, set nopaste, you can also paste the content of the clipboard:
"*p
"+p
That way you don't have to leave normal mode.
if you have to paste + or * depends on how you selected the text, see :help quoteplus.
In Vim, use :insert. This will keep all your formatting and not do autoindenting. For more information help :insert.
:set paste is your friend I use putty and end up copying code between windows. Before I was turned on to :set paste (and :set nopaste) copy/paste gave me fits for that very reason.
Just go to visual mode in vim , and select from up to down lines after selecting just press = , All the selected line will be indented.
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