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Comment by mpobrien | Hacker News Reader

Another method I sometimes use for pasting large blocks of code:

    :r !cat
    (paste your stuff)
    ctrl - D

Doesn't require any switching between paste modes.

Nice idea, and you can replace cat if you need to clean up the paste:

    :r!perltidy
    (paste coworker's ugly perl code)
    ctrl-D

and you have nice looking code pasted.

Interesting.... I see how it works, any other benefit to this approach?