Copy code to vi - UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

rooh · #1 03-10-2004

Hi,

whenever I copy a code to vi session from other script it just goes weird.

It just goes across the whole screen and looks really bizzare
If the code is small I can manually remove the tabs and indent it correctly but if it is 2000 lines it makes it really difficult.

Is there something I can do about it and how can I copy efficiently without getting the code all over the place.

Your help will be highly appreciated

Thanks
Rooh

norsk hedensk · #2 03-10-2004

if the text you are copying to a vi session is from a script, i would have the script dump its output to a file, then edit it like that.
ie:
./somescript > someoutputfile

oombera · #3 03-10-2004

Quote:

Originally posted by rooh
whenever I copy a code to vi session from other script it just goes weird.

It just goes across the whole screen and looks really bizzare

Where's this code coming from? Is it, like Norsk said, the output of a script? Are you just entering it on the command line?

Include the exact command you're using that's producing the undesirable results.

mpty · #4 03-11-2004

If you are using vim then you might get better results by doing ":se paste" before the paste operation. Remember to reset the setting i.e. ":se nopaste" when going back to normal editting.

mpty

Ygor · #5 03-11-2004

Turn off autoindent with :set noai
or read-in the file using :r filename

rooh · #6 03-12-2004

Hi ,

Basically this is what I am doing.

Suppose my .txt file looks like this

Code:

# check that the file exists
	Say Hello all
		Do it correctly
	place it on the server
	Do all you can
	Save as much as you can
	Think for the rainy day
	Life is a bed of thorns and face it,either smilingly or you wet ur face

Now when I copy these lines and paste it on a vi i.e.
vi tmp_rooh.ksh

It looks like the one below
***********************************************

Code:

# check that the file exists
        Say Hello all
                        Do it correctly
                                place it on the server
                                        Do all you can
                                                Save as much as you can
                                                        Think for the rainy day
                                                                Life is a bed of thorns and face it,either smilingly or you w
et ur face

*************************************************
I want it to look exactly the same as the one in .txt and not like the one above.

Hope this makes it a bit clear.
If it just a few lines of code I can manually do it but there are codes of 1000's of lines and I need to copy them from the text file and put it on unix .

Thanks

Code tags added -- Perderabo

rooh · #7 03-12-2004

Heah Guys,

The code pasted in the second part has changed it's formatting in here.

CAN YOU PLEASE TRY PASTING THE CODE ON YOUR VI session and hopefully you'll see what I mean as IT's formatting it here quiet well and thus I can't show you here.

Thanks

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