Re: how to prevent abbreviations to be expanded when pasting with the mouse?

Hi Jose,

On 05.Nov.10 11:58, Jose Caballero wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I use VIM 6.3 (I cannot update it) on Red Hat.
>
> I have a set of abbreviations defined in my .vimrc file that allows me to
> type very fast.
> However, when I copy&paste some text using the mouse, if some string inside
> the new text matches any of my defined abbreviations, it is also expanded
> automatically.
> But when I copy and paste text with the mouse I would like that text not to
> be modified.
>
> Is there any way to prevent vim from expanding abbreviations when text in
> pasted?

":set paste" before pasting the text should do the trick. After pasting
you need to ":set nopaste" to enable abbreviations and related things
again.

Also read ":help paste" for more informations.

> Thank you very much in advance.
> Jose

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