Answer by wisbucky for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
Native paste / bracketed paste is the best and simplest way since vim 8 (released in 2016). It even works over ssh! (Bracketed paste works on Linux and Mac, but not Windows Git Bash) Make sure you have...
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Another answer I did not see until now: :se paste noai
View ArticleAnswer by Bruno for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
From vim: ]p From outside: "*]p or "+]p
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Answer by Neil McGill for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
Sadly I found the vim plugin mentioned not to be working with iTerm2 3.0.15 (to be fair I don't know if this broke on older versions) - but I found this hack instead. Map command-p to do the paste and...
View ArticleAnswer by codingdave for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
Although :pastetoggle or :paste and :nopaste should be working fine (if implemented - they are not always as we can see from the discussion) I highly recomment pasting using the direct approach "+p or...
View ArticleAnswer by TheChetan for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
Another way to paste is via <CR> and dropping the contents of the register (here the global register). See: :h i_ctrl-r and h i_CTRL-R_CTRL-O. From the vim help documentation: Insert the contents...
View ArticleAnswer by thdoan for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
While setting the paste mode with paste/nopaste/pastetoggle is perfectly fine, you still have to manually enable paste mode before pasting and disable paste mode after pasting. Being the lazy person...
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When working inside a terminal the vim-bracketed-paste vim plugin will automatically handle pastes without needing any keystrokes before or after the paste. It works by detecting bracketed paste mode...
View ArticleAnswer by Micah Elliott for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
The fastest way I’m aware of to quickly go to paste-insert mode for a one-shot paste is tpope’s unimpaired, which features yo and yO, presumably mnemonics for “you open”. They’re only documented in his...
View ArticleAnswer by d.danailov for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
Please read this article: Toggle auto-indenting for code paste Some people like the visual feedback shown in the status line by the following alternative for your vimrc: nnoremap <F2> :set...
View ArticleAnswer by anh_ng8 for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
Add this to your ~/.vimrc and you will only have to press F2 before and after pasting: set pastetoggle=<F2>
View ArticleAnswer by Soren for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
I just put set clipboard=unnamed in my .vimrc. That makes the default paste buffer map to X's clipboard. So, if I mark a bit of text in a terminal, I can simply press p to paste it in vim. Similarly, I...
View ArticleAnswer by Marcus Ericsson for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
If you are on a mac, macvim seems to handle it well without having to toggle paste. brew install macvim --override-system-vim
View ArticleAnswer by Von for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
Here is a post by someone who figured out how to remap the paste event to automatically turn paste mode on and then back off. Works for me in tmux/iTerm on MacOSX.
View ArticleAnswer by maniacalrobot for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
Mac users can avoid auto formatting by reading directly from the pasteboard with: :r !pbpaste
View ArticleAnswer by Dergachev for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
Stick this in your ~/.vimrc and be happy: " enables :Paste to just do what you want command Paste execute 'set noai | insert | set ai' Edit: on reflection, :r !cat is a far better approach since it's...
View ArticleAnswer by Sergey Vakulenko for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into...
This works for me ( case for + register, what i use like exchange buffer between aps ): imap <silent> <S-Insert> <C-O>:set noai<CR><C-R>+<C-O>:set ai<CR>
View ArticleAnswer by thomasrutter for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
If you are working locally, you can paste from the system clipboard with the key sequence: "+p This is a proper vim command, so no need to worry about entering an insert mode or switching off...
View ArticleAnswer by thegeek for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
I usually use :r! cat and then paste ( shift + insert ) the content, and CTRL+D. No need to enable & disable, direct usage.
View ArticleAnswer by Jacob R for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
To avoid undesired effects while pasting, there is an option that needs to be set: set paste A useful command to have in your .vimrc is set pastetoggle=<F10> or some other button, to easily...
View ArticleAnswer by P Shved for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
Update: Better answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/38258720/62202 To turn off autoindent when you paste code, there's a special "paste" mode. Type :set paste Then paste your code. Note that the...
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I am making the effort to learn Vim. When I paste code into my document from the clipboard, I get extra spaces at the start of each new line: line line line I know you can turn off auto indent but I...
View ArticleAnswer by Gael for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
This issue has already been answered, but I though I could also add my own solution:If you simply want to disable auto-indent system wise, for every file type (basically, disable the auto-indent...
View ArticleAnswer by thiagowfx for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
The following vim plugin handles that automatically through its "Bracketed Paste" mode: https://github.com/wincent/terminusSets up "Bracketed Paste" mode, which means you can forget about manually...
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Answer by B.Mr.W. for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
I am a Python user who sometimes copy and paste into Vim. (I switched from Mac to Windows WSL) and this was one of the glitches that bothered me.If you touch a script.py and then vi script.py, Vi will...
View ArticleAnswer by Ela Dute for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
If you use the vim above v8.2, you can check with :help tmux-integration.If you experience issues when running Vim inside tmux, here are a few hints.You can comment-out parts if something doesn't work...
View ArticleAnswer by luoziluojun for Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim
If you want to turn off autoindent forever,you can remove this file /usr/share/vim/vim82/indent.vim and add set paste to your vimrc file
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VimL:inoremap <silent> <S-Insert> <Cmd>set paste<CR><C-r>+<Cmd>set nopaste<CR>Neovim lua:vim.keymap.set("i", "<S-Insert>", [[<Cmd>set...
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