[wellylug] Staircase effect in vim...

[Ewen McNeill]

In message <94d630hrqd4n0r9f8htak3sapf18h475dc at 4ax.com>, Enkidu writes:
>My Linux machine runs Debian, and I ssh into it using putty. When I
>cut and paste from Windows into a vim session in insert mode, I get an
>interesting staircase effect where each successive line has an extra
>tab added to it. By the end of a thousands lines or so, each line is
>preceded by a thousand tabs!

Disable auto-indent when pasting text.  gvim manages to do this
automatically when receiving a paste; for vim the easiest way to turn
off all the stuff that interferes with pasting is "set paste", and to
turn it all back on again "set nopaste".

Ewen