[kwlug-disc] Syntax and indenting in vim 8.0 driving me crazy ...

[Raymond Chen]

expandtab must appear after 'set paste' is what I remember...
BTW, do you put your personal settings like .vimrc .bashrc or .tmux.conf on
Github? I even created a bit.do short URL for my .bashrc so I can just curl
it whenever I need it on a new machine


On Feb 20, 2018 14:45, "Khalid Baheyeldin" <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> Before I discovered that deleting my .vimrc (and now adding a minimal one)
> fixed the pasting issue, I used a shell workaround, like so:
>
> :r !cat
> pasted text goes here
> and here
> and here
> Ctrl-D
>
> That always allowed me to paste stuff without vim's autoindent messing it
> up.
>
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 2:39 PM, Adam Glauser <adamglauser at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 12:44 PM doug moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I have autoindent turned on by default, but it gets in the way if I
>>> paste text from the clipboard.
>>> So I got used to typing
>>>    :se noai
>>> to turn off autoindent, and
>>>    :se ai
>>> to turn it back on.
>>>
>>
>> I've used always used `:set paste` for this, if it is ever a problem. I'm
>> on Vim 8+, and usually it "just works". I've never figured out why it
>> sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. It seems[1] `:set paste` may prevent
>> other unwanted completions as well (braces and friends for source code).
>>
>> Now that I think about it, I wonder if it is the difference between using
>> the terminal emulator's paste (type the clipboard into the terminal) vs.
>> Vim's clipboard support ("*p).
>>
>> [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2514445/turning-off-
>> auto-indent-when-pasting-text-into-vim
>>
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