Vim's copy and paste (Re: [Techtalk] mgp2html revamp)

[Jacinta Richardson]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Mary wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 16, 2003, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> > (ignore the fact that vi doesn't like copying and pasting from other
> > documents...just look at the HTML formatting)
> 
> try:
> 
> :set nopaste
> 
> It turns off vim's autoindent function. It also turns off word wrap, so
> you might want to
> 
> :set paste

I think that these are backwards.  Do :set paste befor cut'n'pasting into
vi/vim and do :set nopaste afterwards if you need it.  If you use gvim it
auto-detects quite well, unfortunately not all of us have X access to the
machines we need to edit files on.  :(

	Jacinta


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