On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 at 07:23, n952162 wrote: > > Am 18.03.2022 um 00:22 schrieb Andy Koppe: > > On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 at 20:32, René Berber wrote: > >> On 3/17/2022 1:03 PM, n952162 wrote: > >> > >>> Does anyone know how I can disable the highlighting that occurs when I > >>> copy and paste in xterm? > >>> > >>> Escape sequences are added to achieve that and sometimes they're not > >>> being properly interpreted. > >>> > >>> Why would I want that anyway? > >> The same thing happens to (plain, non X windows) mintty. > >> > >> It started recently, maybe a couple of weeks. No idea how to fix it, > >> haven't really tried. > >> > >> Very annoying. > > It came in with the readline 8.1 update in September last year, which > > enabled "bracketed paste mode" by default. (I think zsh has had it > > enabled for a few years.) > > > > As n952162 said, it tells the terminal to enclose pasted text in > > escape sequences. > > > > There are several points to this: > > - It stops accidental multi-line pastes from getting immediately > > executed line by line. > > - It makes it easier to undo a paste, as you can cut it out in one go > > rather than deleting manually. > > - Pasting can be faster, as the application can process the paste in > > one chunk rather than treating it as char-by-char keyboard input. > > > > But yep, sometimes it can go wonky, in particular when the bracketing > > mode for some reason is left on for an application that doesn't expect > > it. > > > > For readline, it can be disabled in ~/.inputrc: > > > > set enable-bracketed-paste off > > > > Regards, > > Andy > > > Andy, perhaps you can speak to another, almost related issue, which I > posted on 10th of March: > > /xterm*VT100.Translations only when mouse is over the window with focus/ > > A copy is attached here. This is only a Cygwin issue, as far as I know. > > Perhaps you can recommend someone who I could turn to, to get a fix, an > explanation, a workaround, or help to get started doing a fix?
I'm afraid I can't help with that, but hopefully the Cygwin/X maintainer has seen your report. It might be interesting whether it happens in the different XWin modes (single window, rootless, multiwindow), or on a Linux host. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
