vi / vim extra tabs during paste - solved

I've had this annoying problem with vi / vim ever since I started to use it - whenever you copy text and paste it into vi or vim, it indents each additional line with an extra tab, rendering it completely unreadable and requiring manual editing.

Luckily, I was able to find help on Google groups and the Wikia Vim pages. Solving this problem is as easy as typing in the command:

:set paste

That worked for me!