Re: How to keep indent when pasting in gvim?

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:39 PM, AK <andrei.avk@gmail.com> wrote:
> When pasting something into gvim from a webpage, I almost always prefer to
> keep my current indent level for all subsequent lines of a paste that have 0
> indent and add to current level if lines do have indent.
>

You can use the ]p command to paste the text and indent to the current line.
If you want the text to be inserted literally, then you can use the
CTRL-R CTRL-O * command.

These are explained in the following help:

:help ]p
:help i_CTRL-R_CTRL-O

- Yegappan

> e.g.:
>
> root
>  child1
>  child2
>
> my file:
>
> * lxml
>    |
>
> | is the cursor location. I nearly always want to get this:
>
> * lxml
>    root
>      child1
>      child2
>
> But I can't think of an easy way to do this automatically.. Seems
> like this should be the preferred default behaviour in most cases?
>
>  -ak
>

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