On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:27:33PM -0800, Brian wrote:
> Hi,
> Lately, if I open a file with vi from inside a gnome-terminal and then
> select a large chunk of text, (it doesn't matter where, e.g., Mozilla or
> the same vi session, both do it), it corrupts the formatting with many
> indents. The pasted output inserts more indents on each line than there
> were on the previous line to create a "cascading formatting". Can someone
> point me to how I can stop this?
Someone gave the following hint some time ago and it works for me:
:r !cat
Then paste
and
Cntrl-d
That works on the console.
Regards
Johann
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