Indenting a bunch of lines in Vim

Question

Is there a way to indent a selection of lines in Vim, like we have in text editors where we select a bunch of lines and press tab (or shift tab) to indent/unindent the selected lines?

I am talking about general indentation and not related to code indentation.

Answer 1

You can select a set of lines with visual line mode (via Shift + V), and then type

>

and, to dedent,

<

You can also add numeric arguments. Find out you didn't indent enough? Hit gv to re-select your previous selection.

While typing in normal mode, try out Ctrl + T or Ctrl + D to indent or dedent.