vim should DTRT by default or a sane vi should be supported too

[James Troup]

vim breaks pasting (yes, I know about ':set paste', but requiring that is not
acceptable) by staggering the text if there is leading whitespace in the paste.
Apparently this brain-damage comes from Debian and not upstream. Can we please
either a) fix this, or b) promote nvi to supported. [That was the deal that was
agreed to in Brazil ... ]

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

I've been using this patch for some time with great success:

--- /etc/vim/vimrc~ 2004-09-24 13:36:34.000000000 -0700
+++ /etc/vim/vimrc 2004-10-12 15:33:42.000000000 -0700
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 set backspace=indent,eol,start " more powerful backspacing

 " Now we set some defaults for the editor
-set autoindent " always set autoindenting on
+" set autoindent " always set autoindenting on
 " set linebreak " Don't wrap words by default
 set textwidth=0 " Don't wrap lines by default
 set nobackup " Don't keep a backup file

[Thom May (thombot)]

 vim (1:6.3-046+1ubuntu3) hoary; urgency=low
 .
   * Don't autoindent by default (Ubuntu: #5602)