vim - How do I indent multiple lines quickly in vi? - Stack Overflow
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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.
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