Re: 'gq' not working as expected in Vim 7.3

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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