> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://ploegert.gitbook.io/til/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://ploegert.gitbook.io/til/tools/vim/reindenting-your-code.md).

# Re-indenting Your Code

If you have pasted some poorly formatted code or you've written a portion of code in a way that mangled the indentation, you can quickly re-indent that code for you. Or at least do its best to try and indent it correctly.

Make a visual selection of the code that you want to re-indent and then hit `=`.

For instance, this ruby code

```ruby
if this_thing
p something
else
p nothing
end
```

will be indented by Vim as

```ruby
if this_thing
  p something
else
  p nothing
end
```

See `:h =` for more details on how vim decides what formatting and indenting it will do.

h/t [Chris Erin](https://twitter.com/MCNormalMode)