On Thursday, April 16, 2020 9:51 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran <toraboracave...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> if i press ctrl+shift+v, followed by enter, then > not even the enter registers. if i press the > enter again, alone, without the preceeding > ctrl+shift+v, it works but tells me the obvious > message "permission denied, please try again". > > but if i do the same thing (ctrl+shift+v) in > urxvt, without having ssh's password prompt, then > the password pastes normally, and the subsequent > enter works normally (of course it shows "unknown > command: <password here>"). just to add: if i paste the password by the middlemouse buffer (selection buffer?) it goes through ssh's login prompt. but the ctrl+shift+v (clipboard buffer) doesn't. both (selection and clipboard) pastes work in urxvt when ssh's prompt is not there. but it seems deeper than just the "login prompt". i repeated the same fast enough to paste before the "login prompt" appearing, and same effect: paste did not work when ssh is running. it seems a problem when ssh is running. here is one hint: when i paste with ctrl+shift+v, ssh shows "^" before the password prompt appears. of course, shows nothing when the password prompt appears.