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I cut and paste into vi sessions all the time and that does not happen to me.
It looks a bit like somehow your lines are being separated by line feed characters and you need them to be separated by carriage return characters. I would guess that it's an issue of the windowing environment rather than a vi issue. How are you displaying the source text? Are you running under X windows? What OS are you using?

What does your .exrc contain?

$ cat $HOME/.exrc

What is your TERM type?

$ echo $TERM

What does your vi session set show?

(while in vi)

:set<cr>

(values shown at the bottom)

Cheers,

Keith

I think that your vi session is vim. Try setting paste by "se paste" before the copy operation. See ":help paste" if you're using vim.

Hi Kieth,

This is in responce to your queries
$ cat $HOME/.exrc
set autoindent autowrite showmatch wrapmargin=0 report=1
map :set wrapmargin=8
map {!}sort -b
map 1G
map 1G
map G
map
map
map k
map j
map i
map x
map dd
map D
map DjdG$
map! a
map!
a
map! a
map! a
map!
map!
ap!
ap
map
map i
map x
set showmode
set nowrapscan


$ echo $TERM
xterm

What does your vi session set show?
<cr: No such option - 'set all' gives all option values

As I said earlier, turn off autoindent. Either use the method above or edit your .exrc file.

set noautoindent (noai)

Thanks that's great ... IT worked.
Cheers
Rooh