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alamahant
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:41 pm    Post subject: [SOLVED]xfce4-terminal started highlighting pasted text Reply with quote

Lately this behavior started manifesting..
Like in zsh..But I do not have zsh installed.
Is there a way to stop this annoying behavior?

Thanks guys........
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's a bash-5.1 feature.

Bash-5.1 release available:
The most visible new feature is in Readline: the addition of `faces', which
highlights the text between the point and mark (the region, so this is also
called the 'active region'). This was added to show visibly the text
inserted by bracketed paste, and also marks the text found by incremental
and non-incremental history searches.  Faces are currently tied to
bracketed paste and are enabled and disabled along with bracketed paste
mode.  Bracketed paste mode is enabled by default.
man bash:
       enable-bracketed-paste (On)
              When set to On, readline will configure the terminal  in  a  way
              that will enable it to insert each paste into the editing buffer
              as a single string of characters, instead of treating each char‐
              acter  as  if it had been read from the keyboard.  This can pre‐
              vent pasted characters from being interpreted  as  editing  com‐
              mands.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's because of new readline-8.1 which made this default, if want it off:
Code:
echo set enable-bracketed-paste off >> ~/.inputrc
Will then be disabled on new shells.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks a lot guys....
You are super.
That did it for me.
Very unfortunate and stupid choice of the developers to include such a disgusting feature as a default.
Shame on them.
Thanks Again
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is particularly bad since you probably actually want bracketed-paste mode enabled. It's usually a good thing. However, the graphical artifacts that are now enabled with it may not be a good thing.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2020 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bracketed paste is pretty useful if you accidentally middle-click paste some random text.
Code:
me@host ~ $ random
multiline
text^C
me@host ~ $ bind "set enable-bracketed-paste off"
me@host ~ $ random
bash: random: command not found
me@host ~ $ multiline
bash: multiline: command not found
me@host ~ $ text

It doesn't try to execute it.
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