Re: pasting into vim [Was: Re: question about vim]

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:02:14AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 06:36:51PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
> 
> > yeah I like the filetype stuff as well, I just hate when I do cut and
> > paste and with comments, everything gets askew, so some files I want it
> > off by default
> 
> I'm sure there is a solution for this, I just couldn't find it myself.  
> (I'm guessing you are talking about pasting already indented text which 
> gets indented again by vim). AFAIK you need to 'set paste'. Use 
> 'pastetoggle' to set a keybinding for it (read 'help paste' for why it 
> won't work with normal keybindings).

I use this and it is working well:

:r !cat <enter>

[ paste whatever you want to paste ] 

Cntl-D


Regards
Johann
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