Re: pasting into vi inserts many indents
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
>
> --
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 that's not it, I may need more details.
Justin
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