Pasting text to VI adds pound? When I paste the following text into VI VI adds pound to each line, Is there a way around this? #################################### ##Parameters for XEROX Printers MSSQL DB #################################### ## The collation type of the MSSQL database. xerox.db.collation = UTF-8 ## The port of the MSSQL database. Default is 1433. xerox.db.mssql.port = 1433 ## The xerox MSSQL database name. xerox.db.mssql.name = xerox.datacenter001.prnt0080

`:set paste` should do the trick.

`#` denotes a commented line in your file.

`:set paste` will turn off auto-indenting and auto-commenting, which will allow you to copy and paste things into vi without vi automatically adding comments to the beginning of lines after a line you are pasting that has a comment.

You can run `:set nopaste` again to turn the setting back off.