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Debian vi disable autoindent when pasting

December 23rd, 2007 by eCliPs

Today i finally found how to stop vi to insert tab or comment my text when i paste something:
simply input the command
:set paste
then paste what you want to paste and
:set nopaste

Hoo and by the way, from now on, i will start posting only in english

Posted in linux

10 Responses

  1. mars

    Thanks for the tip. I was wondering how to do this for ages!

  2. C

    sweet! finally got annoyed with this today, and… answered. Thanks! :)

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  4. endre

    yeah,

    i was using :set !autoindent but your solution is far more better.

  5. Brett

    is this the same as :set noai
    ??

  6. Darren

    Great tip. I used :set noai before but that messed up after the first one line comment. This one rocks big time

  7. Berto at PricePlow

    This is great thanks!! Haha so funny how i used to just deal with it

  8. Paul Burney

    Awesome tip! This has been bugging me forever and you finally gave me the answer. It’s easy to remember, too!

  9. Marc Richter

    Thank you so _fucking_ much!!!!! ;)

  10. Ruchi

    Thanks a ton! It was irritating me to no end.

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