vte widget improvement idea

2015-06-11 Thread Martin Kunev
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 (whi

Re: vte widget improvement idea

2015-06-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
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

Re: vte widget improvement idea

2015-06-11 Thread Gergely Polonkai
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 warn