From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23580 invoked by alias); 30 Jun 2015 15:42:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 20289 Received: (qmail 7267 invoked from network); 30 Jun 2015 15:42:08 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 X-AuditID: cbfec7f4-f79c56d0000012ee-8c-5592b8cca98e Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 16:42:02 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson To: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: Pasting a line end doesn't work anymore Message-id: <20150630164202.1cf79388@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> In-reply-to: <5592AFC4.6020302@eastlink.ca> References: <20150630111053.488283d3@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> <5592AFC4.6020302@eastlink.ca> Organization: Samsung Cambridge Solution Centre X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.22.0; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFjrELMWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsVy+t/xy7pndkwKNdg7x8pix8mVjA6MHqsO fmAKYIzisklJzcksSy3St0vgyrixSqZgF1vFou2yDYw9rF2MHBwSAiYSd1tEuxg5gUwxiQv3 1rN1MXJxCAksZZQ4820nM4QzjUni2ptedghnG6PExovPmEBaWARUJf5//QhmswkYSkzdNJsR xBYREJVYvmIzO4gtDLRhy5peNhCbV8Be4t2Zf2D1nALaEn3zG6A2TGSUmPT9PzNIgl9AX+Lq 309MEDfZS8y8coYRollQ4sfkeywgNrOAlsTmbU2sELa8xOY1b8F6hQTUJW7c3c0+gVFoFpKW WUhaZiFpWcDIvIpRNLU0uaA4KT3XUK84Mbe4NC9dLzk/dxMjJGS/7GBcfMzqEKMAB6MSD++O 5xNDhVgTy4orcw8xSnAwK4nw9jRNChXiTUmsrEotyo8vKs1JLT7EKM3BoiTOO3fX+xAhgfTE ktTs1NSC1CKYLBMHp1QDo8tsHqGAL0dl+Hwav5ks+3frz5pSN1kuYc9I1abv8ybInFM5vOxV 7gXHj2ZFbK+nSG/bkZp5983jtHkfJ4vVfs07bGa2RO5+5++Z2l5RHe6Tp14wrwu1WjdhM/d5 p7jyeNUvdytsDvWsLLxYtJ8p1r9/y8tvyXuiOrfsC7ZYOdd0mUnTRI8r5UosxRmJhlrMRcWJ AIGhSjJVAgAA On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:03:32 -0700 Ray Andrews wrote: > I've long since given up being astonished at how some things work, but > am I to take from this that there is/was a time when you'd paste a line > of text (with the end of line there by virtue of it being a line of > text) into an xterm and it would execute? And this would be considered > proper? Yes, until just recently, it would execute arbitrary stuff, quite possibly including key strokes you couldn't even see. Like you, and it would appear most of us round here, that's never seemed a particularly good idea to me. Traditionally, cut-and-paste is handled identically to keyboard input. You need to jump through a hoop, which luckily is nowadays quite common, to make it not do that. Hence the change... pws