I
("Insert", editing mode)
$
(non-editing mode)A
("Append", editing mode)
Use the >
command. To indent 5 lines, 5>>
. To mark a block of lines and indent it, Vjj>
to indent 3 lines (vim only). To indent a curly-braces block, put your cursor on one of the curly braces and use >%.
If you’re copying blocks of text around and need to align the indent of a block in its new location, use ]p
instead of just p
. This aligns the pasted block with the surrounding text.
Also, the shiftwidth setting allows you to control how many spaces to indent.