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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com