[CentOS] vi defaults in 6.x
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 16:02:59 UTC 2012
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:35 AM, John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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...
That's interesting - I don't think I've ever changed any defaults.
I'm using the text mode version in a gnome-terminal window in case
that makes a difference.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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