Re: pasting into vi inserts many indents

[Laszlo Szathmary <Laszlo.Szathmary@loria.fr>]

> > 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.
>
>     :r ! cat
>     <paste>
>     ^D

Or:

:set pastetoggle=<F9>

instead of F9 you can use another key too. In this case if you want to 
insert a selected text, change with F9 to paste mode, paste the text, 
then with F9 change back to normal insert mode. At the bottom vi gives 
you info in which mode you are. (you can press F9 in insert mode too)

	Laszlo