vim pasting without making a mess
If you have auto-indenting enabled in vim, you probably know what a mess you get when you paste a block of code in it. Luckily, vim has something called paste mode :
- before pasting :
:set paste - after pasting :
:set nopaste
Written by Willem van der Jagt
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Or you can use gp instead p.
over 1 year ago
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don't forget to set this on a key in your .vimrc:
set pastetoggle=<F2>(http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Toggle_auto-indenting_for_code_paste)
over 1 year ago
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