turn off wrapping in vim?

[irb]

* Quoth Jeremy C. Reed (reed at reedmedia.net), on Wed, 2007.07.18, at 12:25 -0700:
> I normally use nvi. But I am using vim:
> 
> I tried:
> 
> :set nowrap
> 
> :set sidescroll=0
> 
> But once I started appending text to a long line, it wraps my content.

Try :set paste?

/i.