Hi I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this. I want to implement a new feature for the vte widget so I am interested to hear the opinion of other people about this.
Sometimes I think I have something in the clipboard and paste it into the terminal just to realize I had something else (which is multiline). This can be dangerous. Also, it is not clear what will happen when pasting something copied from a website and it's cumbersome to check the clipboard every time. Both these problems can be avoided with user discipline but I believe there should be a way to reduce the possibility of making such mistakes. My idea is to add a setting (something like vte_terminal_set_paste_escape()) that, when turned on, escapes the dangerous characters (unquoted line feeds) from the clipboard text and then pastes. After some thinking I am no longer sure if implementing this will be easy (or even possible). What I see as a problem is that the widget has to know if the pasted text goes to the shell or something else (e.g. text editor). One possible solution is to see whether the foreground process group of the terminal is the one of the starte d shell (this can be obtained with tcgetpgrp()). Any thoughts on this feature? Do you think this is a good idea? Any suggestions? _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
