[H-GEN] vim question

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Robert Stanford <rob at rotapile.com> writes:

> Quite often when I paste into a file with the middle mouse button each
> successive line is indented one step further than the previous.

It's vim's autoindent setting.

Try issuing the ":set noai" command before pasting, and ":set ai"
after.
-- 
||----|---|------------|--|-------|------|-----------|-#---|-|--|------||
| ``It's just a big electric typewriter.''                              |
|                                                                       |
||--|--------|--------------|----|-------------|------|---------|-----|-|

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