How to stop auto indent?

[fuzihaofzh]

I want to copy a pice of python code into emacs. But emacs makes it automatically to indent to make my code a mess. How can I solve the problem?

[tuhdo]

You can use prefix argument by pressing C-u before pasting with C-y. If you are using evil-mode, pressing SPC u before pressing p.

[syl20bnr]

The auto-indent should not happen in python buffers so I suppose you are pasting in a buffer which is not a python buffer. Is it the case ? If yes then @tuhdo answer is the way to go, if no then we have a bug.

[fuzihaofzh]

I use emacs in iterm to login in a remote client. so I just use command+v to paste in iterm.

[puffnfresh]

Auto-indenting is very annoying with Nix code. I've tried using SPC u p but it has never worked for me.

[magnetophon]

SPC u p doesn't work in Nix code.

System Info

• OS: gnu/linux
• Emacs: 24.5.2
• Spacemacs: 0.105.4
• Spacemacs branch: master (rev. df8eb1b)
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Layers:

(auto-completion erc emacs-lisp extra-langs eyebrowse fasd git github markdown nixos org ranger search-engine spell-checking syntax-checking version-control)

[dlukes]

I use emacs in iterm to login in a remote client. so I just use command+v to paste in iterm.

+ 1, I experience the same behavior -- pasting in a Python buffer results in the contents of the clipboard being auto-indented beyond recognition.

[shakerlxxv]

+1 I'm pasting a bit of SQL into a SQL file and seeing similar "flattened" results after pasting. I'm in evil mode, trying SPC-u p doesn't change the result.

[aldanor]

How do I do a "raw paste" in prog-mode? (or any mode in general)

SPC-u p just results in Wrong type argument: number-of-marker-p, (4) error, or Wrong type argument: nump, (4).

Are the docs outdated / not working? It sure looks like it based on the replies here.

(latest develop branch, evil mode)

[laMudri]

I seem to have the same problem in Agda and Nix code. Any pasted lines are indented to the indentation level of the previous non-empty line. Python does no indentation (as wanted).

[aldanor]

Do any spacemacs gurus know the answer? 😉

[yashi]

Just curious. I don't use spacemacs nor i-something, but are you all using spacemacs under some terminal emulator? And copy from something and past it on the terminal? If so, emacs can't distinguish pasted enter and key input enter and electric-indent kicks in.

What you can do is to disable electric indent with M-x electric-indent-mode. Past whatever you want, and do M-x electric-indent-mode again to re-enable it.

Hope this helps.

[laMudri]

@yashi, no, I'm using graphical Emacs (GNU/Linux). I'm also using Evil's paste, rather than sending keystrokes, so I would be surprised if that were the problem. The problem also occurs with electric-indent-mode disabled.

[aldanor]

I'm also using graphical Emacs (Mac). Can confirm, the problem occurs with electric indent disabled too.

[eskimor]

Same problem here, also GUI, disabling electric indent does not work. Switching to fundamental mode from nix-mode, does help though! :-) yeah!

[mosic]

I encountered this problem today when working in elixir-mode. I found the item in the docs which describes how to change the pasting behaviour: DOCUMENTATION.org#auto-indent-pasted-text

This is what I added to my .spacemacs file to make it work:

(add-to-list 'spacemacs-indent-sensitive-modes 'elixir-mode)

[clhodapp]

spacemacs/layers/+distribution/spacemacs-base/packages.el

Line 337 in 5f26b82

(spacemacs|advise-commands

spacemacs/layers/+distribution/spacemacs-base/funcs.el

Line 834 in 5f26b82

(spacemacs|advise-commands

Spc-u 4 p actually does paste four times without autoindention. Fun.

[clhodapp]

Proposal: replace both with a single working version:

(spacemacs|advise-commands
 "indent" (yank yank-pop evil-paste-before evil-paste-after) around
 "If current mode is not one of spacemacs-indent-sensitive-modes
 indent yanked text (with universal arg don't indent)."
 (let ((prefix (ad-get-arg 0)))
     (ad-set-arg 0 (unless (equal '(4) prefix) prefix))
     (evil-start-undo-step)
     ad-do-it
     (if (and (not (equal '(4) prefix))
                        (not (member major-mode spacemacs-indent-sensitive-modes))
                        (or (derived-mode-p 'prog-mode)
                                (member major-mode spacemacs-indent-sensitive-modes)))
             (let ((transient-mark-mode nil)
                         (save-undo buffer-undo-list))
                 (spacemacs/yank-advised-indent-function (region-beginning)
                                                                                                 (region-end))))
     (evil-end-undo-step)
     (ad-set-arg 0 prefix)))

[Blaisorblade]

With SPC u p I also get the following warnings:

ad-Advice-evil-paste-after: Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, (4) [2 times]
evil-yank-line-handler: Wrong type argument: wholenump, (4)

[Blaisorblade]

@clhodapp Since you seem to have found a solution, is there any chance you could send a pull request?

[aviggiano]

I'm still having this issue
@mosic Could you please post your dotfile with the appropriate code for the SQL layer? I tried to generalize your elixir piece of code but it didn't work

[henriquenj]

@aviggiano You can disable auto-indent on p altogether using the spacemacs-indent-sensitive-modes variable. You can select this behaviour on a per-mode basis. If you think that is good for your workflow, here is the code for sql-mode:

(add-to-list 'spacemacs-indent-sensitive-modes 'sql-mode)

Just put into your dotspacemacs/user-config

[duianto]

This PR has been merged:
Check for universal argument before paste #11340

It superseeded this PR:
Fix pasting with universal argument #11858
which is marked as fixing this issue.