Tabbing visual selection in VIM

Question

In many GUIs when I select a section of text and then hit the Tab or Shift+Tab button the selected section will indent in or out.

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Answer 1

Since I've abandoned vi to vim, I've never used > nor < again. I exploit vim automated indentation that can be explicitly triggered with =

It works very well to motions like =a{ which is even more efficient than =%

Otherwise, If one > isn't enough, just redo it with ., or undo the change with u.