vim paste skew

[ibanex22]

Hi all. Whenever I copy/paste from xterm to xterm into vim my text ends up pasting skewed. If it was supposed to be:

1
2
3
4

it pastes like this:

1
     2
          3
               4

this is really bugging me, I have to edit in xedit to fix it.

Thanks!

[Cabhan]

This is because you are pasting pre-formatted text into vi, which does its own in-line formatting (for instance, indenting).

The best way to avoid this is to run ":set paste" before pasting, then ":set nopaste" afterwards. This will disable all formatting so that you can paste easily, then re-enable whatever you had had originally.

[ibanex22]

Thanks! Works great