[CentOS] vi defaults in 6.x

John Doe jdmls at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 17 15:35:03 UTC 2012


From: 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.

Works for me at least to avoid "crazy" double auto-indent...
And it turns off syntax highlighting too.
But I have no auto-comment in either modes...

JD



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