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Topic: Terminal Type and copy/paste

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Post #1
parker
3 Dec 2008, 20:35

Quick question on terminal type (at least I think that's the problem)...

When I ssh into my kamikaze router and copy some text in a config file, it inserts additional spaces (or maybe tabs) when I paste.  Maybe an example is the best way to explain.

I copy this

config mount
    option target    /home
    option device    /dev/sda1
    option fstype    ext3
    option options    rw,sync
    option enabled    0

config swap
    option device    /dev/sda2
    option enabled    0

But when I paste it into another file on the router, I get this

 
 config mount          
        option target   /home
                option device   /dev/sda1
                        option fstype   ext3
                                option options  rw,sync
                                        option enabled  0                 
                                                                          
                                        config swap                       
                                                option device   /dev/sda2 
                                                        option enabled  0

My terminal was being detected as xterm-color, but I tried vt100 and vt102 with the same results.  What might be the problem here?

-parker

Post #2
parker
8 Dec 2008, 22:06

No replies here, but ciscostu pointed out that I was bumping into the autoindent feature of vi.

It can be turned off with the vi command ':set noautoindent'

I turned it off permanently in the .profile file

# cat /root/.profile 
EXINIT="set noai" ; export EXINIT

Maybe this will help someone.

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