Re: vim, tabs, and copying text
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 09:35:14PM +0200, Torquil Macdonald wrote:
> I have the following problem with vim inside an xterm:
> If I write a file with a TAB at the start of each line in VIM, and try to copy
> and paste it, with the mouse, into another VIM running in another xterm, I
> get one extra TAB for each line like this:
>
> lkk
> kh
> kjh
>
> becomes
>
> lkk
> kh
> kjh
>
> I also get this when copying from other programs into VIM. Any ideas?
That's auto-indent. Type ':set paste' in command mode before pasting
into vim, and ':set nopaste' afterwards. You can also put something like
'set pastetoggle=<F11>' in ~/.vimrc, so that you can simply press F11 to
switch between paste and no-paste mode.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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