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Created: October 30, 2003 Complexity: intermediate Author: Marcel Preda Minimum version: 6.0 Karma: 358/114 Imported from: Tip#597

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Let's say we have:

// some code
{ // start block
// some other code
// HERE IS THE CURSOR
// other code
} // end block

The command >i{ will indent the current block of lines, inside { }. The { and } are unmodified.

Using >a{ will also modify the { } lines.

Unindent (shift left) using <i{ or <a{.

[edit] Comments

With the indent options correctly defined, =% works just fine.

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In a C source file, >% and <% are handy to shuffle braces.

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