[Bug 1926256] Re: Pasted text in the terminal is always highlighted and selected

[Egmont Koblinger]

Freshly released bash-5.2 allows to disable the highlighting of pasted
text (while keeping the "bracketed paste mode" functionality enabled),
or even to define custom highlighting.

You need to place something like this in your .inputrc:

  set enable-active-region off

or

  set active-region-start-color "\e[42m"  # change it to whatever you wish
  set active-region-end-color "\e[m"

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Title:
  Pasted text in the terminal is always highlighted and selected

Status in bash package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in mate-terminal package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in readline package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in vte2.91 package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Have Ubuntu 21.04 installed
  2. Launch terminal
  3a. Execute some command, select this command to copy it, then paste command
  3b. Paste some command from clipboard to terminal

  Expected result:
  * pasted command is not highlighted and is not selected

  Actual result:
  * pasted command is selected and highlighted

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
  Package: mate-terminal 1.24.1-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-16.17-generic 5.11.12
  Uname: Linux 5.11.0-16-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CurrentDesktop: MATE
  Date: Tue Apr 27 09:43:56 2021
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-04-23 (3 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Release amd64 (20210420)
  SourcePackage: mate-terminal
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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