[oclug]VIM pasting oddities

[Phil Tanguay]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Jon Earle wrote:
> replicated on each successive line as well.  Very annoying.  The old vi
> didn't seem to do this (I'm glad I kept it installed).  Is there an
> incantation to fix this?

:set paste

disables all the on-the-fly formatting that vim does.

:set nopaste to go back to normal mode (:set paste! to toggle, which is what
I generally use)

Hope that helps!