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

[Bob Jonkman]

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Now *that* sounds like a short presentation topic!

- --Bob.

On 2018-02-20 10:10 PM, Raymond Chen wrote:
> 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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>> 
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