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

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Lesson learned ;-)

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