From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: bracketed paste mode in xterm and urxvt
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 21:42:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150603204258.GE4767@chaz.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27004.1433345491@thecus.kiddle.eu>
2015-06-03 17:31:31 +0200, Oliver Kiddle:
> [ moved to -workers ]
>
> Yuri D'Elia wrote:
> > On 05/28/2015 10:30 PM, Daniel Hahler wrote:
> > > Apart from that I think that this (bracketed paste mode) should be
> > > included in Zsh's and get maintained this way. Then it could also be
> > > adjusted for vi-mode.
> >
> > I do agree that mainlining this would make a lot of sense, even as a
> > setopt. Or at least provide the keymap/functions needed to enable it.
>
> I've been using bracketed paste for a while now and would also agree.
> The question is in what form to provide it? Note that I posted an
> alternative mechanism in workers/29898. The patch below is a port of
> that to C.
[...]
Also note that where terminals don't filter out control
characters, there's a potential problem in the way ^C is
handled.
zsh disables all signal keys but "intr". If the data to paste
(which is written in one go to the master side of the pty by
the terminal emulator) contains ^C, then a SIGINT will be sent
to zsh and the data from the start of the paste up to ^C will
not be available for reading (discarded by the line discipline,
at least on Linux).
So any bracketed paste solution cannot be safe unless either ^C
is removed by the terminal emulator (like newer versions of
xterm), or ISIG is disabled in the terminal line-discipline.
So, for a truly safe paste, zsh should probably do the
equivalent of a stty -isig. That can only be done *before* the
paste, so that means isig must be turned off all the time (at
least when bracketed paste is enabled). Not desirable as CTRL-C
comes handy to stop lengthy processes by the shell.
To sum-up, for a safe bracketed paste, you need either:
- terminal emulator to filter out ^[ and ^C
Or if the terminal doesn't filter out ^[ and ^C both:
- a different paste mode than xterm's \e[200~<to-paste>\e[201~ which
doesn't work as <to-paste> may contain \e[201~ (something
like: insert-formatted("\033[202~%S~%s",
CLIPBOARD,PRIMARY,CUT_BUFFER0) would do).
- zsh to disable isig.
Maybe a better approach would be to query the X selection for
instance with xclip/xsel where available. That can also be
integrated with the zsh kill ring. I once implemented a PoC
around that idea together with mouse integration
https://github.com/stephane-chazelas/misc-scripts/blob/master/mouse.zsh
--
Stephane
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2015-06-03 12:43 ` Stephane Chazelas
2015-06-03 15:31 ` Oliver Kiddle
2015-06-03 20:42 ` Stephane Chazelas [this message]
2015-06-03 23:48 ` Oliver Kiddle
2015-06-04 7:15 ` Stephane Chazelas
2015-06-05 10:49 ` Yuri D'Elia
2015-06-05 13:40 ` Oliver Kiddle
2015-06-05 14:35 ` Yuri D'Elia
2015-06-10 0:28 ` Oliver Kiddle
2015-06-10 4:38 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-06-15 22:11 ` Oliver Kiddle
2015-06-15 23:09 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-06-16 0:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-06-16 17:12 ` Oliver Kiddle
2015-06-16 20:26 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-06-17 10:45 ` Oliver Kiddle
2015-06-17 15:04 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-06-10 9:44 ` Yuri D'Elia
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