On 4/13/07, Dr. Scott S. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Occasionally I will copy text into a blank document, opened in VIM, only to
find that each successive line is shifted, such as this:

each line
  is shifted
    to the right
      in a very
        annoying pattern
          which requires me
            to manually restore
              it to

this sort of form
where the lines all line up
to the left side.

What might cause this when pasting text into VIM and how can I correct it?

select the offending lines in visual mode and do something like 10<
(the < shifts the lines and the 10 repeats the following command 10
times).

--
Alex Esplin

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