On 2023-01-25 14:08:07 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 24 Jan 2023 at 18:29:38 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2023-01-24 10:36:05 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 24 Jan 2023 at 15:34:49 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > [...] > > > > For instance, if I paste the following 3 lines > > > > > > > > foo1 > > > > foo2 > > > > foo3 > > > > > > > > in dash, I get: > > > > > > > > $ foo1 > > > > foo2 > > > > foo3 > > > > sh: 1: foo1: not found > > > > $ sh: 2: foo2: not found > > > > $ sh: 3: foo3: not found > > > > $ > > > > > > > > Then I can type Ctrl-C, but it occurs at a prompt with no input yet, > > > > and the 3 commands have already been executed. > > > > > > Well, sure, you've pasted lines into a shell, and they get executed. > > > I don't think you want to prevent that. > > > > With bracketed paste, the lines remains in the command line at the > > prompt until the user has typed the [Enter] key to run them. So the > > user can also type Ctrl-C to prevent any execution (or he can edit > > the command). > > You're preaching to the converted; see > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/01/msg00562.html > two posts back.
About this, Ctrl-U is just a shell feature. Contrary to bash, it is not really usable in zsh to erase long pastes (unless one changes the default bindings). But Ctrl-C is fine in zsh. > My comment was with respect to your point 2, which was about > non-bracketed paste, and which was snipped off the top of your post. > > BTW are you implying that dash does bracketed paste? I didn't know that. No, the opposite: I'm showing above that dash does not support bracketed paste. This means that running an X application in background with "&" would not solve the problem with dash, and this would actually be worse with short pastes (which are cancellable with Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Z when an application is running in foreground). I normally don't run X application from dash (which I use mainly for testing shell behavior), but this doesn't mean that this will never occur. -- 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)
