Daniel Shahaf wrote on Sun, Sep 06, 2015 at 09:52:24 +0000:
> Carsten Hey wrote on Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 01:59:36 +0200:
> > An other main paste feature, not running a pasted command without user
> > interaction, would be disabled by this (which makes it, for my private
> > setup, a good candidate for being activated if needed by some currently
> > unused function key).
> > 
> > Btw., I also think that highlighting is sufficient to alert the user
> > that no command is running - that it vanishes if a command runs makes
> > this pretty clear for the second time, and the first time the previously
> > unseen highlighing should catch the attention of the users and make them
> > check what happend.  zle -M ... seems to be a bit too verbose for
> > a default behaviour.
> 
> I'm attaching a patch and a zshrc that together demonstrate the proposed
> behaviour.  To test them, apply the patch, run the resulting 'zsh -f',
> and source the script.
> 
> I propose to make the _resulting behaviour_ the default in 5.1.1.  However,
> before I spend time on rewriting the attached patch entirely in C, I'd
> like to ensure we have consensus for making this change.
> 
> The behaviour is: (a) pastes are never executed until <Enter> is pressed;
> (b) zle_highlight is set; (c) newlines are removed only at <accept-line>.

I've gone ahead and prepared a patch series that implementes that behaviour
entirely in C.  It's attached.