Chris Green wrote in <Zx9nWJdYiodXGkK3@q957>: |On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 10:13:44AM +0000, Chris Green wrote: |> I have a peculiar problem when pasting text into vile. |> |> When I paste text vile seems to see a collection of rather random |> commands rather than just the pasted text. I've checked thoroughly |> that the past doesn't contain any extra control characters or anything |> like that, everywhere else I paste the same text I get just the pasted |> characters and nothing else. |> |> The same text pastes into xvile with no problems. |> |> This is 'middle button' paste on xubuntu Linux. |> |> |> For example when I select the word 'pasting' in this E-Mail and paste |> it into an empty buffer of another instance of file I get 'MSTINGEPI' |> at the top of the empty buffer. |> |> Even more wierdly pasting the same text into this instance of vile |> (being used to compose this E-Mail works perfectly). |> |> So maybe this is something to do with the terminal window that vile is |> running in. But pasting the same text in the terminal outside of vile |> shows no oddities. |> |> Any ideas what might be causing this? It's been happening for quite a |> while now but I've only just got fed up enough with it to do |> something! :-) |> |Ah, doing 'reset' in the terminal window where vile is acting oddly |fixes the problem. Now all I have to do is work out what changes the |terminal state such that vile goes wonky. | |I'll just have to check when it next happens and then look back |through the shell history to see what might have caused the problem. |I can also maybe look at the terminal settings next time it happens to |see what specific setting is causing the issue.
Does vile support bracketed paste mode? Doing a git grep -i 'bracketed' master does not show something relevant. That would be fun given how causal Thomas Dickey was for the feature as such, *if* i recall correctly. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) | |And in Fall, feel "The Dropbear Bard"s ball(s). | |The banded bear |without a care, |Banged on himself fore'er and e'er | |Farewell, dear collar bear
