Vim: Enough tabs already

Scenario:

You are connected to a Linux webserver via a Windows terminal client such as PuTTy. You copy some text to paste into a Vim document open on the remote machine and you get tab hell:

Here's an example of something I pasted in tonight:

ServerAdmin webmaster@host.some_domain.com DocumentRoot /home/bealers/www ServerName bealers.com ErrorLog /var/log/apache/bealers.com-error.log CustomLog /var/log/apache/bealers.com-access.log common Options Indexes

To fix this globally you can edit, as root, /etc/vim/vimrc (or similar) so that this line is commented out, or add it if not there:

set autoindent

else edit your vimrc file ~/.vimrc

Next Vim tip: Removing DOS linebreaks from your files using Vim.