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What's happening is if I highlight something with tabs/indents from one window/browser and want to paste it into vi, the formatting gets messed up.
For example, I have the following in another window that I want to copy:
"date_created" : "2013-06-06 21:12:31",
"netdriver_duplex" : "Full",
"mac_address" : "FA:16:3E:17:CC:E1",
"interfaces" : "eth0,sit0",
"processors" : null
After I highlight it and paste it in vi, I get the following:
"date_created" : "2013-06-06 21:12:31",
"netdriver_duplex" : "Full",
"mac_address" : "FA:16:3E:17:CC:E1",
"interfaces" : "eth0,sit0",
"processors" : null
Someone told me auto-indent is messing me up and to run
ESC-> :set noai
Copy/Paste stuff
ESC-> :set ai
but this gets tiring after a while. Is there a workaround when pasting tabbed lines in vi with autoindent set to on or do I have to turn off auto-indent, paste, turn ai back on every time?
Thanks in advance for your help.