Re: Pasting a line end doesn't work anymore

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>]

On 06/30/2015 08:42 AM, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:03:32 -0700
> Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> 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...
Well then thanks!  You can imagine how I would have foamed at the mouth 
had I experienced that firsthand  ;-)

And, had I foamed, I'd have expected the usual reply that it's been like 
that for decades and can't change because it wouldn't be compatible with 
csh ... so, I'm most pleased to see the readiness to fix something 
that's dumb, tradition or not :-)

Excellento

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