Indenting lines 400..457 help

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 10-Apr-2002 Ned Harvey wrote:
> For the life of me, I can't find any easy way to indent (or unindent) lines
> numbered 400..457 or whatever.  Does anyone have any good suggestions?
> 
> I'm usually a vi user, but I'll happily learn a command of some other
> format.  I've tried
>     :400,457s/(.*)/   \1/g
> and a ton of variations of the same idea, but it seems that the
> search/replace doesn't do what I expect it to.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 

as an ex-vi user I will resist the urge to point out how easy this is under
python mode in emacs (-:

you are thinking about the problem too hard.  What you want to do is simply add
four mor spaces to the beginning of the line right?

:400,457s/^/    /

voila.