Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:44 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> 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? >>> >>> I discovered exactly the same behaviour in the Sylpheed email editor a >>> few >>> weeks back. Not only with cut-and-paste, but just typing into the >>> editor >>> window. If a line starts with # then every following line after that >>> also >>> gains one as you type. >> >> Huh. I just tried it, KDE, rxvt, CentOS 6.3, and don't see that. >> # ipmitool -o supermicro sel list >> 1 | 08/15/2012 | 20:06:32 | Physical Security #0xaa | General Chassis >> intrusion | Asserted >> gets just that. > > It is probably trying to be smarter than we are and doing something > context-sensitive. Try naming the file you are editing something.pl. > Odd. vi trythis.pl, then I highlight from another window # semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t '/mipav-svn(/.*)?' /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.local: line 5 has invalid regex mipav-svn/(*): Invalid preceding regular expression , and that's what I get, with two lines. mark