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 ... JD