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vim - auto comment

Hi,

I am copying some code from a perl source file into a new one. What happens each time is that if the code i'm copying from contains a comment (#) the vim i am copying to adds a # to all subsequent lines!

So if a am copying

Code:

#this is a comment

print ("Hallo");

print ("World");

it comes out as

Code:

#this is a comment

#print ("Hallo");

#print ("World");

I'd like to switch this off,but i have not been able to find the command yet. Any one know what this is so i can switch it off.

Thans

Hi Baddah,

Can you please explain me how do you do to copy the code? So I can try to reproduce, and maybe find a solution.

Best regards,
Angel

I was having the same prob and managed to fix it. Its when you've got 2 xterm/vim sessions open and you copy/paste with the mouse from one to the other.
If the src window/file had a comment at the end of the line (or as the whole line) as in Perl/shell ie '#', then the target ended up with '#' on each line and the next newline, as per his example.
Not exactly sure how I fixed it ( ;) ), but :

1. mv /etc/vimrc /etc/vimrc_bak
2. mv /etc/virc /etc/virc_bak
3. here's my new/current $HOME/.vimrc

Code:

" Use Vim settings, rather then Vi settings (much better!).

" This must be first, because it changes other options as a side effect.

set nocompatible



" allow backspacing over everything in insert mode

set backspace=indent,eol,start



" Only do this part when compiled with support for autocommands.

if has("autocmd")

  " When editing a file, always jump to the last known cursor position.

  " Don't do it when the position is invalid or when inside an event handler

  " (happens when dropping a file on gvim).

  autocmd BufReadPost *

    \ if line("'\"") > 0 && line("'\"") <= line("$") |

    \  exe "normal g`\"" |

    \ endif

endif " has("autocmd")





if &term =~ "xterm"

        if has("terminfo")

      set t_Co=8

      set t_Sf=[3%p1%dm

      set t_Sb=[4%p1%dm

  else

      set t_Co=8

      set t_Sf=[3%dm

      set t_Sb=[4%dm

  endif

endif



syntax enable

colorscheme delek

set noshowmatch

set noautoindent

set tabstop=4

set shiftwidth=4

set softtabstop=4

set ruler

set history=100



" stop auto matching parentheses, but shift-% still works

let loaded_matchparen = 1

Hope it works for you. You may need to logout (completely) and in again to avoid any caching effects.
:)

Quote:

This is exactly the problem yes. I remembered i found a coomand last time that i used to switch it off, but i can't rememeber the code. I'll try your .vimrc file i suppose, but i'm sure there was a command to switch it off and on.

Thanks

Hi Baddah,

You're probably looking for this command
:set paste

Or you can add this line to your ~/.vimrc (which will allow you to toggle between paste and nopaste with Ctrl+P)
nm <C-P> :se invpaste paste?<CR>

Br, Beetle