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12-18-2014

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Configuring vi / vim ?

Just got a new server running Oracle Linux 6 (a derivitive of RHEL, but I'm not sure the version correlation). This is my first hands on with this verision, having worked in the past with OL 5 (as well as some older Solaris, HPUX and AIX).

Connected with putty.

When I'm editing a file in INSERT mode and paste in a several lines I've copied out of some other source (pasting from the Windows clipboard), if the pasted text includes a comment ('#') every line following will be commented and indented - and with the indent increasing on each line -- each following line indented from the previous.

Obvoiously a config issue, but I've never actually tried to do any persistent configuration for vi. After googling a bit, came to no conclusion except that I do not have the commonly reference config files - vimrc, etc.

I'm not the SA and did not actually install the machine, but I do have root access for a while.

I'm open to any pointers. Especially for exactly what to look at to compare this config to one of my other machines that behave in what I would consider a 'normal' fashion. Smilie

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VIMTUTOR(1)						      General Commands Manual						       VIMTUTOR(1)

NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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       The Vimtutor is useful for people that want to learn their first Vim commands.

       The optional argument -g starts vimtutor with gvim rather than vim, if the GUI version of vim is available, or falls back to Vim if gvim is
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       The optional [language] argument is the two-letter name of a language, like "it" or "es".  If the [language] argument is missing, the  lan-
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FILES

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AUTHOR

       The Vimtutor was originally written for Vi by Michael C. Pierce and Robert K. Ware, Colorado  School  of  Mines	using  ideas  supplied	by
       Charles Smith, Colorado State University.  E-mail: bware@mines.colorado.edu.
       It was modified for Vim by Bram Moolenaar.  For the names of the translators see the tutor files.

SEE ALSO

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