From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18124 invoked by alias); 30 Jun 2015 16:35:48 -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: 20291 Received: (qmail 1778 invoked from network); 30 Jun 2015 16:35:44 -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=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=X+5rdgje c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=w5Yuw6sC0Vi6GYoJVYwf8g==:117 a=w5Yuw6sC0Vi6GYoJVYwf8g==:17 a=MaMx-SQXg8kA:10 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=xjUbC-5cXwrYXiU-hUwA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 Message-id: <5592BE3F.2060707@eastlink.ca> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:05:19 -0700 From: Ray Andrews User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.5.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: Pasting a line end doesn't work anymore References: <20150630111053.488283d3@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> <5592AFC4.6020302@eastlink.ca> <20150630164202.1cf79388@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> In-reply-to: <20150630164202.1cf79388@pwslap01u.europe.root.pri> Content-type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 06/30/2015 08:42 AM, Peter Stephenson wrote: > 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... 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 > > pws >