Hi,

Sometimes, I have to copy/paste code from a webpage into a local text file. My text editor is Vim. There's one thing that's nagging me. The indenting function doesn't seem to behave like it should. Basically I have these two modes:

Curiously enough, when I disable auto-indentation, text still keeps indenting automatically. So when I have some shell script with a few if-then-else-fi blocks, I get some basically unusable text going from the upper left to the right bottom of my console.

Anybody knows how to turn this off completely?

Use "set paste" before copy-pasting preformatted code into vim. Use "set nopaste" to get the default behaviour back.

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Better than that add this to your .vimrc:

Then you can toggle between paste and "normal" insert mode with F11

I got this from here

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Thanks a lot, guys! That made my day.