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Fix Bad Indentation When Pasting Text To Vim

The problem is this:

You’re editing a buffer in vim, you copy a text (say, code snippet) from another place (say, Firefox), and you paste it inside vim (with middle mouse button / shift+insert). Most chances you won’t like what vim has just did to your text.

The problem is that vim doesn’t “know” that you’re actually pasting a text, and it thinks that you’re typing. So, if you have indentation enabled, it will re-indent your text.

The solution is simple: Whenever you want to paste text from outside vim into vim. Type this in command mode:

:set paste

So now vim knows that you’re going to paste text, and it will not touch it.

To disable the paste mode:

:set nopaste

As easy as that

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Tags: Vim