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Asked: 2026-05-20T12:38:47+00:00

I have been using vim for about 3 weeks now and have been having

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I have been using vim for about 3 weeks now and have been having problem with tabs.

What I usually do is do gg to go to the top, do a ctrl+v for visual block, do a G to select everything to below(one column), do a $ to select to the right, then press < or > to tab.

However having to do all this, I lose the selection and I have to do all those commands to do another tab.

How do I not lose selection? Or is there a better way?

NOTE: I sometimes don’t need to select everything sometimes just a portion of the file.

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  1. Editorial Team

    To reselect a visual selection use the gv command followed by your command. Although this is not the best way.

    Instead select the whole buffer with ggVG then indent with >. This will indent the selection. To repeat the command again just press .. The . command will repeat the last normal command, in this case the > command. If you have indent a few times to many just use the undo command, u, as many times as necessary. This vimcast is a great screencast describing this technique and this one describe more indention techniques.

    Others prefer the following mappings:

    xnoremap <Tab> >gv
xnoremap <S-Tab> <gv
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