On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Daniel Woods wrote:
> 
> Being used to vi but not vim, I am surprised that I can't get
> vim to accept ':set noai'. Whenever I am trying to do a paste
> from the copy buffer (Ctrl-Insert from another application)
> and I don't want auto-indent, I try to set noai.
> For whatever reason, it still indents, which makes the pasted
> look warped (odd indenting).
> 
> I tried reading help and it says to specify a blank line or
> ESC after using 'o'. Obviously I have to be in insert mode
> in order for the paste (Shift-Insert) to append properly.
> How do I get this to work ?

Try using "set nosi" as well as "set noai". It disables vim's smart indent.

Tony

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