[TriLUG] Pasting indented text into VI (vim)

[Jon Carnes]

Found this *very* helpful tip (at least for me) about handling
cut/pastes of formated text into Vim...
  http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=330

Since VIM 6.0 the indent has been improved so much. But sometimes when
we are pasting formated text (source code or HTML etc) into a buffer,
VIM indents again so that lines will be padded with too many spaces. 

Setting nocindent, noautoindent, nosmartindent still cannot stop this.
 
All you need to do is ":set paste", then paste your stuff, and then 
":set nopaste" again. 

Jon Carnes