spiraling text reordering

[clickit]

When i copy text using clipboard the copy's left margin is often spiraled down the page.
I can't remember what I used to do to put the copy back in original ordered left margin wise.
Can someone remind me what the vi command(s) are to do this?

[drl]

Hi.

The command

set noai

will prevent the autoindent from accumulating the whitespace at the left. In vim, there is also

set paste

which may be of use. As you likely know, set requires a preceding ":'

The

set all

command shows you current settings ... cheers, drl