Staircase affect with vim pasting

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Tip

Staircase affect with vim pasting


Found on the Gentoo forums, and excellent tip on how to avoid that annoying staircase affect when you paste multiple lines into the VIM editor.

Add the following to your .vimrc file

nnoremap :set paste!

http://scotgate.org/?cat=3

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-543109.html