I have a little problem here ladchaps. Whenever I try to paste something into Emacs with Shift+Insert, it works but in a weird way, gradually increasing indentation with each line pasted.
On Vim I'd hit :set paste and everything would go smooth. I don't know what to do with Emacs though. Lend a hand please. I've performed a casual scroll through C-h a but haven't found anything that would help me.
Could you give some more details on which mode you're in and what terminal you're using (and perhaps the version of emacs)? I've not had that problem in a long while, so I'd be interested in digging around why someone would still see it in this day and age.
>>24685 Sure lad.
I'm trying to paste some settings into the fonts.conf file. The major mode seems to be nXML-mode. Emacs's version is 24.5. The terminal is XTerm both for Emacs and for Lynx from which I had copied those settings.
Just in case, the distro I'm using is Debian Unstable.
> gradually increasing indentation with each line pasted
Either the handling of windows vs unix newlines (\n vs \r\n) or tabs. Or both. cat the data into a file directly via bash and see if the same thing happens.
>>24692 All right, I have just `cat << HERE > fonts.conf' that shite and opened the resulting file in Emacs. The structure is unaltered, there are no excess indents.
