On Tuesday 18 November 2003 01:27 pm, Brian wrote:
Hi, Lately, if I open a file with vi from inside a gnome-terminal and then select a large chunk of text, (it doesn't matter where, e.g., Mozilla or the same vi session, both do it), it corrupts the formatting with many indents. The pasted output inserts more indents on each line than there were on the previous line to create a "cascading formatting". Can someone point me to how I can stop this? I know I can fix past problems with cat file | tr -d '\t' , but how can I stop the bug in the first place? However, I can't get it to do it now for an example.
Brian
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This is due to a vi setting, autoindent. Try typing :set noai before pasting text. If you want ai back on, :set ai. :help ai for more info.
if you run gvim you can paste using mouse (middle button), it doesn't do autoindenting then
erik
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