Update: Better answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/38258720/62202 To turn off autoindent when you paste code, there’s a special “paste” mode. Type :set paste Then paste your code. Note that the text in the tooltip now says — INSERT (paste) –. After you pasted your code, turn off the paste-mode, so that auto-indenting when you type works correctly … Read more
yy or Y to copy the line (mnemonic: yank) or dd to delete the line (Vim copies what you deleted into a clipboard-like “register”, like a cut operation) then p to paste the copied or deleted text after the current line or P to paste the copied or deleted text before the current line
Use the > command. To indent five lines, 5>>. To mark a block of lines and indent it, Vjj> to indent three lines (Vim only). To indent a curly-braces block, put your cursor on one of the curly braces and use >% or from anywhere inside block use >iB. If you’re copying blocks of text … Read more
Setting the default editor for Git Pick one: Set core.editor in your Git config: git config –global core.editor “vim” Set the GIT_EDITOR environment variable: export GIT_EDITOR=vim Setting the default editor for all programs Set the standardized VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables*: export VISUAL=vim export EDITOR=”$VISUAL” NOTE: Setting both is not necessarily needed, but some programs … Read more