# Format The Current File Within Vim I'm editing a `.re` file within Vim. I haven't yet wired up `refmt` to something like [ALE](https://github.com/w0rp/ale) for automatic formatting on save. By the time I'm done with my changes, indentation is a mess. I can still take advantage of `refmt` to clean up my file. ``` :!refmt --in-place % ``` Running that command in Vim will cause the current file to be formatted. How does it work? It shells-out to `refmt` which does all the heavy lifting. The `--in-place` flag means that the target file will be re-written by the formatted result. The `%` is a handy Vim shorthand for the path and name of the current file.