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still kind of a stealthy love ninja ([personal profile] zvi) wrote in [site community profile] dw_dev_training2009-09-30 08:13 pm
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Extremely naive question about working with SSH

Okay, when I have a patchfile on my dreamhack, how do I get it out of my dreamhack?

That is to say, when people have asked me to pastebin a file to them, I've been running less on the file, copying each screen, and adding them all together until they make the whole file and then posting it to pastebin.

I know this doesn't transfer files with 100% accuracy to pastebin, but it's usually good enough. However, there has to be a better way to get a file off the dreamhack and onto my local computer, so I can upload it to bugzilla. I just can't, for the life of me, figure out what that better way might be.
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[personal profile] pne 2009-10-05 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
Make sure you are already in Edit mode in vim, though.

It may also help to :set paste before pasting (and optionally :set nopaste afterwards), otherwise you might get vim's auto-indenting screwing with your already-indented code.