Re: vte widget improvement idea

[Bernhard Schuster <schuster bernhard gmail com>]

The most sane thing would probably to treat the whole content of the paste
as single command which implicitly means ignoring newlines or escaping
them. The user can then ack the whole array of commands by a single enter
key press.

I find the idea in general pretty good.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 10:17 PM Gergely Polonkai <gergely polonkai eu> wrote:

> 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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