On Mon, 02 Nov 2009, Savoy, Jim wrote: > >Depending on the options set in vi, it can do horrible things to > indentation when you paste things in :(
:-) seen that! Therefore modern vims have :set paste<enter> and as long as you not 'set nopaste' *no* munging of pastes will be done! I'm needing/using that all the time, I might even put it into my '.vimrc' and make it default ... > I just looked at your original posting (using Outlook) and line 3 is > not indented, but rather continuous from line 2, and the other indents > are in columns 5 and 9 (not 4 and 8). I shall try viewing it with other > mail clients, just for kicks. 'outlook' is a <insert favorite expletive here> for programmers. By Default it *reformats* everything to 'Paragraphs' of the form: - everything NOT split by an empty line is 'supposed to be a useless linebreak for mailtransfer', then it collects all those lines and reformats the resulting words with single whitespaces to window-size. - an empty line means 'paragraph end', so itself may vanish anyway only the linebreak in a paragraph stays. It's like Microsoft(office)Word's view of Text and you are supposed to write html or rtf anyway :-) If hints(warnings, whatever) are on, you'll see a line above your munged mail, saying it removed useless newlines, and by clicking it you can get them back. Stucki ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
