Vim Newbie ? Python Edit/Compile/Run cycle and integrating py help questions

[Hans Nowak]

Will Stuyvesant wrote:
> [Hans Nowak]
> 
>>I have been trying to edit Python source code with vim on Mac OS X.  Most of 
>>the settings in my .vimrc file (copied from Windows) work just fine, except for 
>>one.  I use Tab to indent and Shift-Tab to dedent (a line, not a block).  Tab 
>>behaves as usual, but Shift-Tab doesn't seem to work; it just behaves like I 
>>pressed Tab.
> 
> 
> In gvim on windows and linux (untested on Mac, since I have no access
> to a Mac anywhere):
> 
> Start block selection with the v key, or with <SHIFT>v.  And then of
> course the j key for line down and the l key for going right etc.
> 
> To indent a line, or a selected block, use <SHIFT>>>.  To dedent it do
> <SHIFT><<.

Thanks for your reply; however, I know how to do indents and dedents in vim, 
the problem is more how to map Shift-Tab to do the dedent.  The reason is 
simply that I have been using it for years and don't want to unlearn it and get 
used to a different key combination. :(

I'll see if I can do something with the key combinations you mentioned.

Cheers,