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In some configurations, when you paste text in a vi-screen, it looks all horrible with increasing amounts of spaces and tabs in front of every line. What is wrong? <br>
If you do <b>:set</b>, you probably see the property 'autoindent'. You can shut that off with <b>:set noautoindent</b> for the current vi-session and paste your text again.<br>
A more permanent solution is to open the file <b>~/.vimrc</b> and comment the line with 'set autoindent' (or set ai) out. Start vi again and the property 'autoindent' should be gone.

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For people who use vim as a vi editor there is as well the possibility
to use <br>:set paste<br> In case of vim this is better because
vim has not just autoindent mode but as well smartindent and other
indenting modes. :set paste resets all of those modes. When you are
ready with pasting you can use :set nopaste