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Friday, November 07, 2008

vi copy and paste format problem

when copy and paste in vi it automatically inserts many annoying indents and tabs. To disable the auto indents and formatting, use this command before you paste

:set paste


and paste your codes. After that, set it back

:set nopaste
Posted by Gideon at 8:09 AM
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1 comment:

sam said...

My version of VI must be old as I don't have this option. Turning off autoindent worked for me:

:set noautoindent

January 28, 2009 at 1:09 AM

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