On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 9:56:24 AM UTC-5, Trey Sizemore wrote: >> >> OK, I had recently added a line in my .vimrc (set paste) for pasting >> external contents into vim while maintaining formatting. It worked >> great, but was hosing up the aforementioned pieces as editor for mutt. >> Commenting out that line returned expected behavior. >> >> So for pasting things into vim from now on, should I just invoke 'set >> paste' before pasting and leave the entry out of my .vimrc? >> >> Thanks. > > From :help 'paste': > > > When the 'paste' option is switched on (also when it was already on): > - mapping in Insert mode and Command-line mode is disabled > - abbreviations are disabled > - 'textwidth' is set to 0 > - 'wrapmargin' is set to 0 > - 'autoindent' is reset > - 'smartindent' is reset > - 'softtabstop' is set to 0 > - 'revins' is reset > - 'ruler' is reset > - 'showmatch' is reset > - 'formatoptions' is used like it is empty > > Moral of the story: always read the :help on an option before you mess with > its default setting. > > 'paste' in general, as you now suspect, is meant to be set only temporarily. >
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