[CentOS] vi defaults in 6.x

Fri Aug 17 15:03:43 UTC 2012
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 5:22 AM, John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>
>
>> When I use copy/paste text into a window running vi, if there is a
>> single line starting with '#', in the pasted content, it adds a # to
>> all subsequent lines and indents each an additional level.  Is there
>> some way to eliminate this bizarre behavior, preferably globally and
>> permanently so I don't have to repeat some change for every
>> machine/user where I might log in?
>
> If you do not want to change the defaults, you could temporarily call vim
> without the initializations:
>   vim -u NONE ...

That's the effect I want, since I log into a lot of different machines
and paste stuff into scripts.   But, it doesn't seem to work.  With
'vim -u NONE /tmp/test.pl' it still does the auto-comment stuff.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com