I don't think it is a bad idea per se. Here are some ideas from me: • it should be either turned off by default • or it should warn the user like »hey, you are going to paste multiple lines, are you sure?« with an option to silence such warnings
Also I remember a warning, maybe from ViM that warned me about such an occasion. This means that the terminal has some knowledge on this. On 11 Jun 2015 19:13, "Wouter Verhelst" <w...@uter.be> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 06:55:13PM +0300, Martin Kunev wrote: > [...] > > 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. > [...] > > Any thoughts on this feature? Do you think this is a good idea? Any > > suggestions? > > To be honest, I think that's a terrible idea. > > You're assuming that pasting something into a shell is always a bad > idea. It is if you did it by accident, but if you do it on purpose, it > isn't. > > If I mail my customer to please paste these two commands from their mail > into a shell window, I don't want to have to tell them to switch off > this "protection" first. > > If I have a web page with documentation which says that "to create a new > user, first run adduser <usxername>, and then run passwd <username>", I > don't want to have to tack on "but you can't paste that in the shell > window". > > There are plenty of valid uses for pasting something into a terminal > window. Let's not throw the kid out with the bath water. > > -- > It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer > > -- Barack Obama, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, 2014-03-26 > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
