Pasting stuff into vim arranges text weirdly

When I paste things into a vim session (in a terminal), the text I'm transferring gets rearranged weirdly.
Example: the PKGBUILD for Cube. It goes from this:
# Maintainer: Eric Belanger <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Peter Baldwin <[email protected]>
pkgname=cube
pkgver=2005_08_29
pkgrel=4
pkgdesc="Open source multiplayer and singleplayer first person shooter game"
url="http://www.cubeengine.com/"
depends=('sdl_mixer' 'sdl_image')
backup=(opt/cube/autoexec.cfg opt/cube/servers.cfg)
install=cube.install
source=(http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/cube/${pkgname}_${pkgver}_unix.tar.gz
cube.xpm cube.desktop cube.sh cubed.sh)
md5sums=('e77f3cf85292bf61100d2f8511a254cc' 'd8c1368a2ac729e168fe3dac7e7bd284'
'a09afc0facfb3f048bcc4d9377af3189' 'b57c33005a88a72cb4f6d0bab0e5bb0a'
'9fe10f48983864e0ebaa76abe9827065')
build() {
install -d $startdir/pkg/opt
cp -r $startdir/src/cube $startdir/pkg/opt
cd $startdir/pkg/opt/cube
touch servers.cfg packages/base/temp.{cfg,cgz}
chown root:20 servers.cfg autoexec.cfg packages/base/temp.{cfg,cgz}
chown root:20 savegames demos screenshots
chmod 664 servers.cfg autoexec.cfg packages/base/temp.{cfg,cgz}
chmod 775 savegames demos screenshots
install -D -m644 $startdir/src/cube.desktop $startdir/pkg/usr/share/applications/cube.desktop
install -D -m644 $startdir/src/cube.xpm $startdir/pkg/usr/share/pixmaps/cube.xpm
install -D -m755 $startdir/src/cube.sh $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/cube
install -D -m755 $startdir/src/cubed.sh $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/cubed
install -m755 bin_unix/linux_client cube_client
install -m755 bin_unix/linux_server cube_server
rm -r $startdir/pkg/opt/cube/{bin_unix,cube_unix}
To this:
intainer: Eric Belanger <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Peter Baldwin <[email protected]>
pkgname=cube
pkgver=2005_08_29
pkgrel=4
pkgdesc="Open source multiplayer and singleplayer first person shooter game"
url="http://www.cubeengine.com/"
depends=('sdl_mixer' 'sdl_image')
backup=(opt/cube/autoexec.cfg opt/cube/servers.cfg)
install=cube.install
source=(http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/cube/${pkgname}_${pkgver}_unix.tar.gz
cube.xpm cube.desktop cube.sh cubed.sh)
md5sums=('e77f3cf85292bf61100d2f8511a254cc'
'd8c1368a2ac729e168fe3dac7e7bd284'
'a09afc0facfb3f048bcc4d9377af3189'
'b57c33005a88a72cb4f6d0bab0e5bb0a'
'9fe10f48983864e0ebaa76abe9827065')
build() {
install -d $startdir/pkg/opt
cp -r $startdir/src/cube
$startdir/pkg/opt
cd $startdir/pkg/opt/cube
touch servers.cfg
packages/base/temp.{cfg,cgz}
chown root:20 servers.cfg
autoexec.cfg
packages/base/temp.{cfg,cgz}
chown root:20 savegames
demos screenshots
chmod 664 servers.cfg
autoexec.cfg
packages/base/temp.{cfg,cgz}
chmod 775 savegames
demos screenshots
install -D -m644
$startdir/src/cube.desktop
$startdir/pkg/usr/share/applications/cube.desktop
install -D -m644
$startdir/src/cube.xpm
$startdir/pkg/usr/share/pixmaps/cube.xpm
install -D
-m755
$startdir/src/cube.sh
$startdir/pkg/usr/bin/cube
install -D
-m755
$startdir/src/cubed.sh
$startdir/pkg/usr/bin/cubed
install
-m755
bin_unix/linux_client
cube_client
install
-m755
bin_unix/linux_server
cube_server
rm -r
$startdir/pkg/opt/cube/{bin_unix,cube_unix}
WTF is going on?

paranoos wrote:
it's because vim automatically tabs stuff out for you.
this is what the paste option is for.
:set paste
and when you're done, turn it off.
:set nopaste
Just to expand - you can also do:
:set paste!
to toggle the setting (which makes this key bindable).
However, vim-devel in [unstable] supports
set pastetoggle=<F2>
which will allow F2 to toggle the paste mode in any mode (normal, insert, visual, select, etc)

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