Re: [PATCH] Add active mark, face support; activate mark on paste

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/15/20 10:37 AM, gentoo_eshoes@tutanota.com wrote:

>> This is the expected behavior with bracketed-paste enabled. The pasted text
>> is `bracketed' by a start and end sequence -- that's how the face code
>> knows what's been pasted and to highlight it -- and any embedded editing
>> characters, like newline, are simply added to the editing buffer. The
>> face code enables bracketed paste by default, since it doesn't make much
>> sense to test it without bracketed paste enabled.
>>
> Good to know. This is actually pretty good: it can act like a security 
> feature for when pasting copied text that could be dangerous, especially 
> since I've disabled xfce4-terminal's Preferences->General->[ ] Show unsafe 
> paste dialog
> 
> This is actually a (nice)feature. Thank you!

You can enable bracketed paste mode in bash-4.4 and later by putting

set enable-bracketed-paste on

into your inputrc.

Chet

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