Hi All,

I started to work at this place which uses HPUX. I am used to Solaris.

When using VI under Solaris, I could copy and paste several lines of
code and such with no problems.

However, under this HPUX, whenever it comes across a paranthese or a
bracket, it starts to indent all the following lines as if it is trying
to be smart and format the code, etc. This never happened under
Solaris.

Is there a way to turn this off?

Thanks,

Arthur

amerar@iwc.net wrote:
>
> When using VI under Solaris, I could copy and paste several lines of
> code and such with no problems.
>
> However, under this HPUX, whenever it comes across a paranthese or a
> bracket, it starts to indent all the following lines as if it is trying
> to be smart and format the code, etc. This never happened under
> Solaris.
>
> Is there a way to turn this off?

VI has an 'autoindent' mode that can be enabled with one of the :set
variables. You can turn that off with

:set noai

You can also add that to a $HOME/.exrc file to affect vi at startup.

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Works great, thanks.......

IN vi

:set noai

This will turn autoindent off. More then likely the system default is for it to
be on. You can turn it off in your .rc file.


amerar@iwc.net wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I started to work at this place which uses HPUX. I am used to Solaris.
>
> When using VI under Solaris, I could copy and paste several lines of
> code and such with no problems.
>
> However, under this HPUX, whenever it comes across a paranthese or a
> bracket, it starts to indent all the following lines as if it is trying
> to be smart and format the code, etc. This never happened under
> Solaris.
>
> Is there a way to turn this off?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arthur
>

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