Re-indenting a script in VIM
I use vim daily on all of the systems I manage. It's a critical tool for me; I can't stand emacs nor can I stand nano. Whatever.
All of my scripts are perfectly formatted; I swear by this. Four spaces for tabs. Opening and closing braces are where they need to be. I take pride in this. But, every once in a while, you're going to run into a script or two that wasn't written by you- and you need this formatted proper.
One note, this only works for scripts that VIM recognizes- so these obscure scripts won't get reformatted properly.
When you open up the file (`vim some_cool_script.pl`), while in command mode (not edit mode)- type gg=G. That's without hitting the ":" first. Literally, hit 'g', then 'g' again, followed by '=' and *SHIFT*+'g'.
It has saved me quite a bit of headaches, especially from people who insist tab should be two literal spaces. /smh
Granted, you can map this to a fn key. E.g. in .vimrc, have an entry somehwhere on a line showing (this is untested):
map <F5> mzgg=G`z<CR>
But, as I said, on over 50 machines so I'm not about to maintain 50 .vimrc files. :) Sometimes it's simpler to just remember the shortcut.
Granted, you can map this to a fn key. E.g. in .vimrc, have an entry somehwhere on a line showing (this is untested):
map <F5> mzgg=G`z<CR>
But, as I said, on over 50 machines so I'm not about to maintain 50 .vimrc files. :) Sometimes it's simpler to just remember the shortcut.
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