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dreeves
dreeves

Reputation: 26932

Smart indenting in vim (normally great) is a disaster when pasting in a chunk of code

I guess other editors are smart enough to turn that stuff off for pasting but when using vim in a terminal it can't distinguish between pasting and actual typing.

What kinds of solutions or workarounds do you have for this?

Added: there's also a setting that makes comments automatically continue on the next line. The indenting at least doesn't change the semantics of the code but the auto comment continuation really screws things up. Come to think of it, I should just turn that off altogether -- anyone know what that option is called?

Upvotes: 13

Views: 5012

Answers (4)

Aaron Jensen
Aaron Jensen

Reputation: 6060

Another way to do this, assuming you have your system clipboard set up properly is to do

"*p

This will paste from the system clipboard.

Check your vim --version. On OS X you'll need +clipboard and on Linux +xterm_clipboard, I believe.

If you're on OS X, you can always brew install macvim and use mvim -v instead of the bundled Vim (it was not compiled with +clipboard).

Upvotes: 1

kguest
kguest

Reputation: 3844

add this to your .vimrc and use it with the F2 key to toggle paste status before and after you add in chunks of code:

set pastetoggle=<F2>

Upvotes: 7

Craig H
Craig H

Reputation: 7989

:set paste is the way to go, but if you forget, as I often do, then if you are using a language with {} as the open/close of blocks, then doing a =% on the first { or last } will reapply the indenting.

Upvotes: 21

J.J.
J.J.

Reputation: 4872

:set paste

Upvotes: 15

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