Vim equivalent to Emacs C-i?

Question

Does Vim have a command equivalent to Emacs' Ctrl-i?

Emacs has an extremely useful shortcut "C-i" which fixes indentation of the current line (or selected lines.)

For example, suppose you write this tiny code on Emacs:

    def foo
  print "boo"
end

and you are selecting the whole 3 lines. You press "C-i" then the code becomes

def foo
  print "boo"
end

I can use this in quiet mode i.e. ignoring .emacs as well. Does anyone know how to do this on Vim? Please advise. Thanks. Nathan

Answer 1

In insert mode Ctrl+F reindents the current line. The keybinding may be changed by setting cinkeys

Answer 2

The answers to this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/235839/how-do-i-indent-multiple-lines-quickly-in-vi offers several ways to indent.

You may be looking for ={ to indent your current code block.

Answer 3

Thanks for all of your help. I really appreciate it. But actually I found a solution:

In vimrc, you will see the code below in near L37-39:

"if has("autocmd")
"  filetype plugin indent on
"endif

and so delete " at the beginning of each line to enable this setting. Now the auto indent and indentation fixing work!

As Casual Coder says, when you want to fix indentation in the current line, press = (in Emacs C-h.) Also you can combine this with selecting commands like gg=G (in Emacs, C-x h C-i) for the whole code, and C-v (Visual Block Mode) would be handy.

(The sample code I wrote in the question is written in Ruby. My Vim which I downloaded from the Ubuntu repository comes with Ruby's indent configuration file (/usr/share/vim/vim72/indent/ruby.vim) and so you don't have to get "vim-ruby".)

Answer 4

maybe there are other ways but try:

=