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From: John Blinka <jblinka@neo.rr.com>
To: gentoo-user <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] how to disable an automatic feature in vim?
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:35:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45DF7A35.7010003@neo.rr.com> (raw)

Hi, all,

I'm one of those people who don't like editors doing things automatically
because I find the automatic feature often does something other than what
I intended.

I've noticed recently that when I edit configuration files in /etc, vim 
likes
to insert a leading "# " in new lines following existing comment lines.  
That's
almost never what I want to do, and I almost always have to delete the # and
space before doing what I intended.

I don't even know what to call this behavior, so I don't even know where to
look in the vim documentation.

Anybody know how to turn this behavior off?  I've got the latest stable 
versions
of vim, vim-core, and gentoo-syntax installed on my systems.

Thanks for your help.

John Blinka

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             reply	other threads:[~2007-02-23 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-23 23:35 John Blinka [this message]
2007-02-24  0:15 ` [gentoo-user] how to disable an automatic feature in vim? Philip Webb
2007-02-24 12:46   ` [gentoo-user] how to disable an automatic feature in vim? - SOLVED John Blinka

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