[ale] Copying from vi into another terminal

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, David S. Jackson wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:51:53AM -0400 John Wells <jb at devsea.com> wrote:
> > If you have a file open in vi, is there a way to highlight text and copy
> > in to an X-win buffer so you can paste it in another terminal?  In other
> > words, copy the text in vi, but paste to a non-vi destination.
> 
> Mostly the cut/paste in X works okay for me, but with heavily
> indented texts, sometimes the wrapping and indenting gets messed up.

In vim,

:set paste

will avoid that

later,
chris