If you :set autoindent you'll never need to indent using the tab key. Indentation happens automatically as you write code. In the very rare cases where you ne

If you :set autoindent you'll never need to indent using the tab key. Indentation happens automatically as you write code. In the very rare cases where you need to change the indentation of a line, there's == or, if that doesn't work, you can indent a line forth and back with >> and << .