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set paste on my session in Linux

Hi Linux Experts,

Currently, when I paste yaml or jason (or any text) in vi editor. It is not aligning well. So every time I have to ": set paste"

Is there a way I can set this on my session pls?

how to set to my current session
how to set this in bash_profile

please advice

noci

Either invoke vim with :
vim --cmd 'set paste'
or
create a ~/.vimrc file containing

set paste

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And other optional commands

Duncan Roe

You can set the environment variable EXINIT to do this. Put the following line in your ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.profile or wherever

export EXINIT='set paste'

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In my .bashrc I have export EXINIT='se showmode number ai' - you might like to include some of these also

Duncan Roe

No I meant EXINIT. I tried unsetting EXINIT and line numbers in vim stopped.

Duncan Roe

And when I tried export EXINIT='se showmode number ai paste' I see -- INSERT (paste) -- in the status line. (and ai starts turned off as per vim help)
@noci please post how you came to the conclusion that "EXINIT doesn't work for 'set paste'"
(I tested with the o command)

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Duncan Roe

Interesting - thanks for getting to the bottom of that. Possibly a bug (that EXINIT only works w/out ~/.vimrc); but VIMINIT is clearly the better way to go.
So ... the OP could put

export VIMINIT='set paste'

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in ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.profile or wherever

enthuguy

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Thanks a lot noci and Duncan, that VIMINT did the trick for me.