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Comment by zack | Hacker News Reader

The problem I have is that I just wrote a bunch of shit in vi (which has not been auto-indenting for me, though I should probably check my .vimrc or whatever), and now I'm editing it using TextMate, and the formatting is all screwed up.

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What language is your code in? If it's a curly-brace language (c, c++, java, etc.), then the following should properly indent everything using Vim:

  gg=G

If not (or if that doesn't work right), you can use visual mode to quickly change indents on large sections at once:

Select a set of lines using:

and then press (for example):

2>

to add 2 tabs to the beginning of the selected lines.

Or to go the other way (remove 2 tabs):

2<

The Python bundle has a nifty "clean up white space" command which in tandem with the "format code" command in the appropriate language bundle works for me.

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