Open Sourcery » vi http://www.opensourcery.co.uk Open Source Support and Consultancy Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:45:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Preserve formatting when pasting in vi/vim http://www.opensourcery.co.uk/2008/07/preserve-formatting-when-pasting-in-vivim/ http://www.opensourcery.co.uk/2008/07/preserve-formatting-when-pasting-in-vivim/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:34:53 +0000 dave http://www.opensourcery.co.uk/?p=63 a

]]> When copy and pasting into vi or vim, you can often end up with badly formatted text. This is often referred to as “the staircase effect”. It’s easily prevented by entering :set paste before you paste, when you have finished turn it off again with :set nopaste.

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