On 4/18/07, Hans Ecke <address@hidden> wrote: > Of course I could use M-I to switch autoindent off before pasting and > switch it back on afterward, but could nano not do that for me? I
> mean, it should be able to detect that I'm pasting something...
It's not that simple. There are two different ways of pasting with the mouse: with gpm on the console, or with X11. To ncurses, there's no
difference between pasting text and typing it as fast as possible, and so, as long as nano is based solely on ncurses, it shares that limitation.