Re: vte widget improvement idea

[Gergely Polonkai <gergely polonkai eu>]

I don't think it is a bad idea per se. Here are some ideas from me:

• it should be either turned off by default
• or it should warn the user like »hey, you are going to paste multiple
lines, are you sure?« with an option to silence such warnings

Also I remember a warning, maybe from ViM that warned me about such an
occasion. This means that the terminal has some knowledge on this.
On 11 Jun 2015 19:13, "Wouter Verhelst" <w uter be> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 06:55:13PM +0300, Martin Kunev wrote:
> [...]
> > My idea is to add a setting (something like
> > vte_terminal_set_paste_escape()) that, when turned on, escapes the
> > dangerous characters (unquoted line feeds) from the clipboard text and
> then
> > pastes.
> [...]
> > Any thoughts on this feature? Do you think this is a good idea? Any
> > suggestions?
>
> To be honest, I think that's a terrible idea.
>
> You're assuming that pasting something into a shell is always a bad
> idea. It is if you did it by accident, but if you do it on purpose, it
> isn't.
>
> If I mail my customer to please paste these two commands from their mail
> into a shell window, I don't want to have to tell them to switch off
> this "protection" first.
>
> If I have a web page with documentation which says that "to create a new
> user, first run adduser <usxername>, and then run passwd <username>", I
> don't want to have to tack on "but you can't paste that in the shell
> window".
>
> There are plenty of valid uses for pasting something into a terminal
> window. Let's not throw the kid out with the bath water.
>
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