Just wanted to say thanks (for a change ;) )! This is one of the many tiny quirks I never bothered to look into but always found annoying! Now I at least know how to work around that.
v4hn On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 05:12:58PM +0100, Raphaël Proust wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Egmont Koblinger <egm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Could you put an example when it is useful? > > Vim has a special mode for that. See :h 'paste' for more details, including: > > Put Vim in Paste mode. This is useful if you want to cut or copy > some text from one window and paste it in Vim. This will avoid > unexpected effects. > Setting this option is useful when using Vim in a terminal, where Vim > cannot distinguish between typed text and pasted text. In the GUI, > Vim > knows about pasting and will mostly do the right thing without 'paste' > being set. The same is true for a terminal where Vim handles the > mouse clicks itself. > > It avoids autoindentation, but also some keyboard mappings.
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