Over the last few weeks, I've found myself having to copy and paste
large chunks of text into emacs running in a terminal. This leads to
some annoyance, as each character pasted triggers a keystroke. In
particular, every newline triggers indentation via
newline-and-indent. This is very annoying, as the indentation
usually gets a bit messy and turns into an ugly staircase of text.
Vim has a solution to this problem via a command :set paste, which
turns off indentation while pasting. More generally, most terminals
support what is known as
bracketed paste to enter a
large string of text as one virtual keystroke. I recently discovered
the emacs equivalent: bracketed-paste mode on
melpa. Now a long standing
annoyance is fixed with a simple:
(require 'bracketed-paste)
(bracketed-paste-enable)