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Indentation commands

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This episode covers the commands for shifting text left and right (< and >), and also goes over the auto indent command (=).

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To add TextMate’s key mappings, put the following in your .vimrc:

nmap <D-[> <<
nmap <D-]> >>
vmap <D-[> <gv
vmap <D-]> >gv

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