On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 20:28:44 -0600 Mike McNally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I use the mouse to paste in X, say from one xterm to another, > if there is a tab in the line it gets duplicated on ea successive > line and is sort of a recursive thing like this: > > lets post > this > one > two > three > > > ### comes out looking like this ### > > > lets post > this > one > two > three > > exactly like that... I used the mouse to do it. How do I fix this > so the cut and paste function doesn't goof up the tabs? Are you pasting into a bash shell? I wouldn't think so. But, if you're pasting into an xterm running vim, you're seeing autoindent in action. :set paste :set nopaste -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>