Along the same Text manipulation line...

[Alex Esplin]

On 4/13/07, Dr. Scott S. Jones <scott at fyrenice.com> wrote:
> Occasionally I will copy text into a blank document, opened in VIM, only to
> find that each successive line is shifted, such as this:
>
> each line
>   is shifted
>     to the right
>       in a very
>         annoying pattern
>           which requires me
>             to manually restore
>               it to
>
> this sort of form
> where the lines all line up
> to the left side.
>
> What might cause this when pasting text into VIM and how can I correct it?

select the offending lines in visual mode and do something like 10<
(the < shifts the lines and the 10 repeats the following command 10
times).

-- 
Alex Esplin