bash bracketed ("reverse video") paste

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 02:05:36PM +0200, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 1:30 PM Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 12:21, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> 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:
> >
> > What is it that you don't like about bracketed paste?
> 
> It's visually jarring

Bracketed paste is a semantic feature, not a visual one: in the context
of bash, it means that pastes don't get interpreted as commands until
you press Enter, for instance.  Unfortunately bash 5.1 seems to have
tied the visual behaviour to the semantic one.  In Chris Green's
previous thread on this, I posted some more details and a suggestion to
ask upstream to allow the visual behaviour to be controlled
independently.

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