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Re: bracketed paste ANSI sequence on non-ANSI terminals


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: bracketed paste ANSI sequence on non-ANSI terminals
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2023 11:31:54 -0400
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird

On 11/3/23 11:28 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
At 2023-11-03T10:51:44-0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
There's no portable way to determine whether a particular terminal
supports bracketed paste. Readline does suppress it for dumb
terminals, but the vt52 and adm3a are just smart enough to pass its
tests.

That's a pretty low bar--those terminals predate ECMA-48![1]

Readline can get by with a fairly minimal set of capabilities, fewer if
you choose horizontal scroll mode.

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