To everyone suffering from this bug: You could maybe - as a terrible workaround - disable "bracketed paste mode" from your shell prompt. In case of bash, you might want to alter your PS1 to contain $'... \[\e[?2004l\] ...' or set PROMPT_COMMAND to echo $'\e[?2004l'.
When pressing ^O to return to the subshell in mc, you might need to press Enter once for the prompt to get printed, but then at least you can copy without those extra character. Also, probably you won't see bracketed paste's advantages when copying text into mc's built-in editor. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to vte in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1350334 Title: copy/paste garbage while using mc, due to lack of support of bracketed paste mode Status in Terminator: New Status in “vte” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Gnome terminator does not support bracketed paste mode introduced by xterm to detect between typed-in text and text that is copy-pasted. Due to this, copy-pasting text in terminator adds some garbage character before and after pasted text. This bug occurs on latest version (from bzr). Example: my_pasted_text becomes 0~my_paster_text1~ This occurs when using Terminator along with Midnight Commander. This is a well known bug that has been fixed already in Gnome Terminal. Apparently the bug has been fixed in VTE, and as a result on Gnome Terminal. See references below for details. To trigger the bug, see sequence below, copied from referenced bug report: 1) start gnome-terminal 2) start mc in that terminal 3) enter the Ctrl-o subshell 4) maximise the terminal (in terminator, this is same as doing for instance Ctrl-Z to maximize current sub-window) 5) leave the Ctrl-o subshell (i.e. return to the dir/file list) 6) copy some text (e.g. some "filename") 7) return back to the Ctrl-o subshell 8) paste the text References: - xterm bracketed paste mode http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html#Bracketed%20Paste%20Mode - original bug report on Midnight Commander http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/3207 - Bug fix and patch on VTE https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729533 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator/+bug/1350334/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
