Re: Behavior change

[Gregory Heytings]

> > Okay.  I just set "set enable-bracketed-paste off" in my /etc/inputrc. 
> > Perhaps this change should be documented in CHANGES, and in the man 
> > page (where enable-bracketed-paste is said to have the default value 
> > Off).
>
> The manual page in the released version will reflect the default setting 
> of bracketed paste. While it will probably remain on by default, there 
> have already been several reports of the bracketed paste enable/disable 
> escape sequences interfering with program-driven readline use cases, so 
> it's not certain it will.

FWIW, I've been using bash for twenty years (starting with version 2.05 
IIRC), and it's the first time I see changes that I find disturbing and 
want to turn off.  The paste behavior with enable-bracketed-paste on also 
disturbed me, but I wasn't sure how to explain it.

> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>                  ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates

Nice mottoes :-)