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xyxx
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 Posted: Fri May 14, 2021 10:45 pm Post subject: [solved] pasted text keeps highlighted in terminal |
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Hello Gentoo community,
I have a weird issue about copying and pasting in terminal. I sometimes copy commands from browser and then paste them into terminal; or just use double click and middle button within terminal to do this. Usually there's no highlight on pasted text. But now the pasted text keeps highlighted until new input from keyboard. Neovim and nano are not affected.
Last night I tried Clear Linux (the official kvm image) in qemu, and I noticed this issue immediately after I quit qemu. Could it be some bug related to qemu/kvm?
I'm using alacritty on X11. No desktop environment. WM is bspwm. I thought it might be some bug of alacritty, so I re-emerged it, no success. Then I emerged st (terminal from suckless.org) but st also has this issue.
Or could it be a new feature from certain recently updated package? If so I'd rather turn it off...
I have no idea how to fix because I don't even know what caused this... I hope someone could help me solve this problem. thanks.
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Indeed, that is pretty much what I hoped for you to get from it. :]
I, too, found it weird at first, but now I actually like it, and prefer it, mostly due to sometimes having accidentally pasted multiple lines of what-have-you into a terminal...
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| Bracketed paste is a good thing. The highlighting mode, which is unfortunately controlled by the same flag, is more of a mixed bag. Some people dislike it for good reason, and cannot get rid of it without giving up bracketed paste. |
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| Hu wrote: | | Bracketed paste is a good thing. |
I don't think so.
Since... er... many years, I systematically add some "secure" aliases into my bashrc. Like :
| Code: | alias rm='rm -iv'
alias mv='mv -iv' |
and so on. And what happened ? Now, I systematically use "rm -f", to bypass the "-i" behaviour. All the time. Automatically. The cure is worse than the disease.
With this new "we protect you from yourself" feature, my new reflex is to systematically hit the return key. All the time. Automatically. Because I massively use pasted commands, and that behaviour makes me waste lots of time. |
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| Syl20 wrote: | | With this new "we protect you from yourself" feature, my new reflex is to systematically hit the return key. All the time. Automatically. Because I massively use pasted commands, and that behaviour makes me waste lots of time. |
With bracketed past, if the copied ext contains hidden control characters, they will be obvious when pasting into the terminal. And it won't auto-execute the command if contains a newline character. You have a choice to not hit Return blindly or not. For those who use it appropriately, bracketed paste is positively, objectively an improvement. |
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The point of it being a reflex explicitly makes it not a choice. It is the CLI version of clicking 'OK' in Windows and what most people seemingly complained about in Vista with its User Account Control.
I've gotten into the habit of using -i with cp and mv. I sometimes find myself hitting return too quickly, particularly if I'm doing a lot of work with file management. I've always disliked having to use -f with rm, and I become slightly "anxious" when I think about using -r (and "less slightly" when I do use it). These and similar commands seem like they'd benefit most from --pretend or --dry-run.
Having bracketed past is an objective security "good." That doesn't mean its implementation is objectively good.
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| Syl20 wrote: | | Hu wrote: | | Bracketed paste is a good thing. |
I don't think so.
Since... er... many years, I systematically add some "secure" aliases into my bashrc. Like : | Code: | alias rm='rm -iv'
alias mv='mv -iv' |
and so on. And what happened ? Now, I systematically use "rm -f", to bypass the "-i" behaviour. All the time. Automatically. The cure is worse than the disease. |
I always remove those aliases as soon as I find them, because certain distributions are very bad about shipping those as defaults. I consider it better to just remove the alias outright, rather than always append a -f. | Syl20 wrote: | | With this new "we protect you from yourself" feature, my new reflex is to systematically hit the return key. All the time. Automatically. Because I massively use pasted commands, and that behaviour makes me waste lots of time. |
You use paste much more than I do. I find the bracketed paste to be almost always a positive, because I rarely paste a command in a ready-to-execute form. My pastes into a terminal fall into three categories:- Accidental due to an over-sensitive touchpad. Rare, but irritating.
- Intentional partial command. Bracketed paste mode would have no effect here. I will finish out the command by hand, then execute it.
- Intentional full command. Bracketed paste inhibits this running automatically. Usually, I like that I get a last chance to review it before it executes. This helps if the command was copied from a web page, as the browser may not have copied exactly the sequence I wanted (e.g. trailing garbage characters may have slipped in).
If you paste commands as much as you say, you should disable bracketed paste. Although, I would also question your workflow. What are you doing that you paste so much? Would you be better off storing these commands in scripts that you can run? |
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I like it, but it would have been a capital opportunity to broadcast the change in news rather than having to discover it through trial error.
I always alias cp, mv, and rm with cp -i, mv -i, rm -i. Those are life savers. I also have excellent backups.
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| Hu wrote: | | What are you doing that you paste so much? Would you be better off storing these commands in scripts that you can run? |
For example, I replaced ntp by chrony on my seven boxes recently. About a dozen of commands, some with interactions, et some without. Unique usage.
I think seven boxes isn't enough to use softwares like ansible or puppet, that require some "scripting" for each task anyway. But it's enough to be bored when doing the same task on all of them. So I make the changes on one "test" box, and I copy-paste the commands into the others boxes' terminals. |
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| For that many systems, I would have written up a straight-line script, probably with no error handling, but just collecting up the commands to be pasted. Then scp it to all the systems, and run it. Alternatively, I might have copied that into a tmux copy buffer and pasted from there. If the paste is done without -p, then tmux will not generate the bracketed-paste wrapper characters, and the receiving shell will treat it as typed. |
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