From a02dd56a6e3acf7e7b0c270cd155a8cb35fb976d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: syl20bnr <sylvain.benner@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 01:17:23 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add visual state mapping for "<" and ">" to "<gv" and ">gv"
 respectively

---
 spacemacs/packages.el | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/spacemacs/packages.el b/spacemacs/packages.el
index 56d1763b4..bf25f5d59 100644
--- a/spacemacs/packages.el
+++ b/spacemacs/packages.el
@@ -679,6 +679,9 @@ Example: (evil-map visual \"<\" \"<gv\")"
                        (call-interactively ',(lookup-key evil-normal-state-map key))
                        (execute-kbd-macro ,(substring seq 1)))
                   (execute-kbd-macro ,seq))))))
+      ;; Keep the region active when shifting
+      (evil-map visual "<" "<gv")
+      (evil-map visual ">" ">gv")
 
       (defun spacemacs/smart-doc-lookup ()
         "Bind K to SPC m h h and fall back to `evil-lookup'"