[vox-tech] vim question - temp suspension of all autoformatting

Henry House hajhouse at houseag.com
Thu Dec 23 04:08:27 PST 2004


På torsdag, 23 december 2004, skrev Peter Jay Salzman:
> Hi all,
> 
> There is a Vim keystroke that I've forgotten that tells Vim to temporarily
> suspend all forms of autoformatting --- autoindent, cindent, map!,
> abbreviations, replacements, etc.
> 
> It's especially useful when you're mouse pasting into vim, in order to avoid
> the "staircase effect".  It essentially tells vim to take the rest of the
> input as verbatim.
> 
> Can't remember what the keystroke was and looking for it in the docs is like
> looking for a keystroke in a haystack.
> 
> Anyone know this keystroke?

I believe you are looking for ':set paste'.

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