Indenting lines 400..457 help

[Ned Harvey]

Damn, you guys are great!

"Geoff Gerrietts" <geoff at gerrietts.net> wrote in message
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> Quoting Ned Harvey (rahvee at yaahhoo.com):
> > For the life of me, I can't find any easy way to indent (or unindent)
lines
> > numbered 400..457 or whatever.  Does anyone have any good suggestions?
> >
> > I'm usually a vi user, but I'll happily learn a command of some other
> > format.  I've tried
> >     :400,457s/(.*)/   \1/g
> > and a ton of variations of the same idea, but it seems that the
> > search/replace doesn't do what I expect it to.
>
> In vim, the easiest way is to hit V, scroll down a few lines, then hit
> the > key to shift everything right one indent level. If the indent
> level is too large, :set shiftwidth=4. I also recommend :set
> tabstop=8, :set softtabstop=4, :set expandtab.
>
> In oldschool vi, try:
> :400
> 57>>
>
> Another common trick I use is:
>
> :400,457s/^/    /
>
> Best of luck,
> --G.
>
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