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hjiwa@gruc19.nor.chevron.com (Jeff Wang) wrote in
<1992Nov17.005252@gruc19.nor.chevron.com>:

W> bvaughan@sheps.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan) writes:

V> I also found this feature useful when writing programs.  Let's say I have
V> a section of code I decide to make conditional, so I want to indent it to
V> make an "if.. then.." block.  I just insert a column of blanks in front of
V> that section of code.

W> You could use :'a,'bs/^/  / to shift a block to the right.

If you want to indent it by one shiftwidth -- and it doesn't make much sense
to set shiftwidth to any other value than your indentation increment -- you
can use :'a,'b> in vi.  Heck, don't even mark the range: move to the top and

:.,/^$/-1>

Oh, belay that.  Just do }> and you've indented the rest of the paragraph.
None of these suggestions require shelling out to fork another program.  }>
doesn't even need a switch to ex mode.

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