On 2018-12-04 21:50:47 -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > That looks as expected, if you've got two different things writing to > the terminal at the same time: > > https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html#h2-Bracketed-Paste-Mode
So, perhaps I can see something with zsh (without Ctrl-V first) and Emacs because bracketed paste is enabled or something like that. > but the execvp command by itself doesn't do the writing So, what is doing the writing? Note that I get the same behavior with key "a" when I use *VT100*translations: #override \n\ <Key>a: exec-formatted("browser %s", PRIMARY) so that the cause cannot be the window manager or some X driver on special key + mouse button combination. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)