CODEWITHSUNDEEP
linuxvim
user3610796
user3610796

Reputation: 128

Inserting text in vim causes each line to be shifted right

When I copy some text from one opened window (browser and text editor) to vim by pressing Shift + Insert, The text is inserted in a way that each consecutive line is shifted right with progressive amount of tabs. Meaning that second line is shifted by 1 tab, 3rd line is shifted by 2 tabs, 4th line is shifted by 3 tabs, etc. How to prevent this weird insertion and have text look in vim the same way as in the source window? 

while True:
        reads = [p.stdout.fileno(), p.stderr.fileno()]
            ret = select.select(reads, [], [])

                for fd in ret[0]:
                            if fd == p.stdout.fileno():
                                            read = p.stdout.readline()

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1151

Answers (2)

Alp
Alp

Reputation: 3105

before you paste anything, try using 

:set paste

For completeness purposes, when you are done, you can go back to previous/default mode with:

:set nopaste

otherwise things like autoindent would not work. (Thanks to Anurag Peshne for pointing this out.)

Upvotes: 6

JXITC
JXITC

Reputation: 1178

:set paste

will disable auto-indent in vim. After paste, use :set nopaste to re-enable your auto indent feature in vim

But if you found it annoying to toggle between paste and nopaste, just simply use the + register to paste:

"+p

This will ignore any paste options in vim, just paste as-it.

more info on system clipboard register: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Accessing_the_system_clipboard

Upvotes: 3

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