bash bracketed ("reverse video") paste

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Sun May 23 11:54:06 UTC 2021


On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 01:20:29PM +0200, Tom H wrote:
> While searching the archive for a thread on a 21.04 bug, I saw an
> email about stopping "reverse video" pasting.
> 
> There are two ways to turn off this new bash (mis)feature:
> 
> bind 'set enable-bracketed-paste off'
> in bashrc
> 
> or
> 
> set enable-bracketed-paste off
> in inputrc

I deliberately *enable* bracketed paste on my systems.  Having to
intentionally press Enter after pasting something before it's
interpreted as a command is great for avoiding mistakes.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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