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>

Reply via email to