On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:16:38AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > I tried to actually. When I copied the backtrace data from the > terminal into a vi file it became unreadable by inserting more and > more tab characters on each line. Line 1 got 1 tab, line 2 got 2 tabs, > etc. After a few lines it was all wrapped around and completely > useless. > > I've seen this before on a number of my Linux systems. I've never > tried to figure out what causes it but if you know a solution I could > go back and clean it up. > > Cheers, > Mark Depends on what version of vi/vim you use, but it is usually caused by autoindent trying to be "too smart". Working around it is pretty simple, type the following in command mode :set paste switch to insert mode and paste switch back to command mode and type :set nopaste See http://vim.sourceforge.net/tips/tip.php?tip_id=330 -- Darragh "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool."
