set paste set pastetoggle=<F3>
mark first character with e.g. ‘a’ tag, go to last char, cut,
m a d ' a
then paste where you like (p or P).
on Ubuntu, just make sure you’ve got VIM (vim-nox package) installed, it’s enabled by default.
on other systems,
vi ~/.vimrc autocmd BufNewFile,BufFilePre,BufRead *.md set filetype=markdown
How do I delete a large block of text without counting the lines? http://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/1915/how-do-i-delete-a-large-block-of-text-without-counting-the-lines