Question

I am an average vim user and with an avarage .vimrc containing:

set autoindent

It’s not that bad in general, but when it comes to copying the content from outside, I get the indentation of this piece terribly messed up.
Even worse, if the text contains the comments like “//”, they are propagated to the next lines of the copied content even if they originally were not commented.
gg=G doesn’t help.

Is there any way to set the autoindent to be disabled on the action of copying something from outside?

Answer 1

This is described on the Vim wiki. Try adding this to your .vimrc:

set pastetoggle=<F2>

You can set any key – <F2> is just an example. Then just press your key to allow pasting, do your copy into Vim, then press the key again to return to normal autoindent behaviour.