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Re: New feature in bash 5.1/readline-8.1 rc1 breaks python-pexpect
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: New feature in bash 5.1/readline-8.1 rc1 breaks python-pexpect |
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Fri, 16 Oct 2020 09:32:59 -0400 |
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 09:28:26AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 10/16/20 9:16 AM, Dr. Werner Fink wrote:
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> > Also a warning hint in the manual page could
> > help users before enabling this feature :)
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> I agree, and the manual page in the release will reflect bracketed paste's
> default setting. However, readline doesn't try to enable bracketed paste if
> tcgetattr fails, which it will on an fd that's not a terminal, so I am
> fairly sure that expect/pexpect use ptys to masquerade as terminals.
They do -- or at least, the original Expect does. I'm guessing Pexpect
follows Expect's lead here.