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