On Wednesday, January 29, 2020 10:11:13 AM Alan Feuerbacher via blfs-support
wrote:
> I'm beginning to use KDE and its Konsole terminal emulator to build more
> BLFS programs. With the terminal in Fedora and with xterm in the twm
> environment, I've been using the vi editor to edit my build scripts.
> Typically, I'll copy some text from the BLFS book into a vi session,
> edit it, and then copy commands into another terminal window for execution.
>
> This has worked fine for years, but I've not used KDE before. At least,
> not in the LFS environment. So I don't quite know what to expect with
> regard to behavior different from the desktop environments I'm used to.
>
> Now I've discovered that KDE Konsole behaves unexpectedly when I
> copy/paste into vi from a BLFS book webpage. If I copy "normal text"
> into vi, it works as expected. However, when I copy highlighted "command
> text" (like ./configure ... make) into vi, Konsole pops up a little
> window titled "Filter -- Konsole" containing the message:
>
> ###########
>
> The text you're trying to paste contains hidden unprintable characters,
> do you want to filter them out?
>
> Other unprintable character (\xd)
>
> Remove unprintable :: Confirm paste :: Cancel paste
>
> ###########
>
> I've never seen this message before, and I can find no useful
> information with Google.
>
> If I select "Remove unprintable", the text pastes into vi OK. If I
> select "Confirm paste", extra junk appears.
>
> If I then copy/paste commands into another Konsole window, with the
> "Remove unprintable" selection the commands execute as expected ; I get
> garbage with the "Confirm paste" selection.
>
> It's easy enough to work around this, but it requires dealing with the
> Konsole popup and so is a pain. Doing this hundreds of times is a REAL pain.
>
> If I open an xterm in a Konsole window ("xterm&"), and do copy/paste
> from the BLFS book into a vi session, it acts as expected.
>
> I'm guessing that Konsole, unlike xterm and the Fedora terminal, is not
> automatically filtering out unprintable characters from the BLFS
> webpage. I've looked all through the "Settings" menu in Konsole, with
> nothing useful.
>
> Any suggestions for changing Konsole's behavior?
>
> Alan
>
>
I had the exact same problem and I know it was easy enough to fix (I can paste
from The Book now without that dialogue popping up). It's just that at the
moment I can't remember how I fixed it....
Is there perhaps just some sort of "do not ask again" option in the dialogue
window that you've overlooked or something? It must've been something silly
like that, I'm sure.
I'll get back to you again if I can actually remember.
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