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Whenever I paste something in a source code buffer it is automatically re-indented. This is great sometimes, if I'm pasting a complete block of code or a single self contained line for example, but it's awful other times. For example I often assemble fragments together from various places and usually they have at least some existing indentation that I'd prefer to keep.

I've been told I can pass the universal argument to the past command to paste without indentation but "SPC u p" doesn't seem to do anything different.

Is there a way to turn off auto-indent for one paste in Spacemacs or, alternatively, is there a way to disable auto-indent on paste altogether (in that second case it'd be cool to have a command to indent the last pasted block).

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    any chance you are running your Emacs under a terminal emulator? – Yasushi Shoji Jul 10 '16 at 13:03
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    No, I'm running as a GUI app under OSX (sorry, I should have mentioned that) – Thomas Parslow Jul 10 '16 at 16:08
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    He's speaking about evil's p command, not about pasting with the mouse. – jch Jul 11 '16 at 1:27
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Go to INSERT mode and then hit CTRL+U and then paste it with ⌘+V.

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You can disable indent on paste altogether with:

(setq-default spacemacs-yank-indent-threshold 0)

This variable is the size of paste region that is "too large" to auto-indent. We set it to 0 so that every region is too large.

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