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Disable vi Autoindent Before Pasting SQL Scripts on Oracle Hosts Purpose Pasting a SQL script copied from email, a Confluence page, or a ticket comment into a vi buffer over SSH — and watching every line shift one indent right of the previous one — is the most common and most frustrating vi failure mode an Oracle DBA …

vi Editor Commands Reference for Oracle DBAs Every Oracle DBA on Unix or Linux ends up in vi whether they planned to or not. It opens by default when you crontab -e, it is what visudo drops you into, and it is the editor on most Oracle Linux and AIX hosts before anyone has installed nano or configured EDITOR. Knowing …