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Smart indenting in vim (normally great) is a disaster when pasting in a chunk of code.

Answer 1

+12 A:

:set paste

J.J. 2009-01-22 19:53:41

:set nopaste - to turn indenting back on

J.J. 2009-01-22 19:53:58

oh ho, thanks. so you have to remember to set it and unset it before and after pasting? I guess nothing more automatic is possible without a programmatic way to distinguish pasting and typing.

dreeves 2009-01-22 19:57:02

You could use Key Mapping to bind it to a set of keys. But I have never tried this. http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/Vim/beginners/slides/slide30.html

J.J. 2009-01-22 20:00:36

Cool, want to incorporate that into your answer? And maybe add something about the feature that automatically continues commenting, if you know what I'm talking about there.

dreeves 2009-01-22 21:02:16

@dreeves: automatically continued commenting is also disabled by :set paste

Dan Fitch 2009-01-23 02:02:52

Good point, although in that case there isn't a simple ex-post fix like there is with indenting so I think I'd rather just turn that feature off.

dreeves 2009-01-23 02:14:52

@dreeves: :set fo-=r:he fo-table for more info on all the stuff you can set

Dan Fitch 2009-01-23 02:21:34

(doh, forgot no linebreaks in comments -- :he is a separate command obviously... and now I will stop derailing this comment thread)

Dan Fitch 2009-01-23 02:22:09

Answer 2

+13 A:

:set paste is the way to go, but if you forget, as I often do, then if you are using a language with {} as the open/close of blocks, then doing a =% on the first { or last } will reapply the indenting.

Craig H 2009-01-22 20:04:50

Nice trick with the =%. I forgot = works on ranges.

strager 2009-01-22 20:53:04

This actually works with any language plugin that correctly defines blocks -- ruby, for example, can do this from the `end`.

Dan Fitch 2009-01-23 02:04:57

Answer 3

+1 A:

add this to your .vimrc and use it with the F2 key to toggle paste status before and after you add in chunks of code:

set pastetoggle=<F2>

kguest 2010-03-24 10:43:05

You forgot to enclose code in ```.

ZyX 2010-03-24 16:48:55

That's fixed now ;)

kguest 2010-10-14 07:39:32

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