Tabbing blocks/multiple lines of code

[kfmfe04]

In regular vim, I use :>>>5 to insert 3 levels of tabs for the next 5 lines.

In regular VS code, I select a block of 5 lines and hit tab 3 times.

How do I do the equivalent in VSCodeVim?

[higoswami]

Add this to your settings.json :

       "vim.visualModeKeyBindings": [
        {
            "before": ["<tab>"],
            "after": [">","g","v"]
        },
        {
            "before": ["<S-tab>"],
            "after": ["<","g","v"]
        }
    ],

Now you can use tab to indent and Shift tab to indent backwards

My settings.json

[kfmfe04]

omg - you are a life-saver!!! TY so much! ^^

[AndrewStopchenko-SO]

Since VSCodeVim uses Tab/Shift+Tab for next/previous editor tabs navigation, remapping <tab>, <S-tab> will "shadow" the tabs navigation while in visual mode.

Alternatively, we can remap <, > commands to run gv to re-select current visual selection, but those should be non-recursive visual mode keybindings:

    "vim.visualModeKeyBindingsNonRecursive": [
        // keep selection while dedent/indent
        {
            "before": [">"],
            "after": [">","g","v"]
        },
        {
            "before": ["<"],
            "after": ["<","g","v"]
        },
    ],