On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 09:28:26AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 10/16/20 9:16 AM, Dr. Werner Fink wrote: > > > Also a warning hint in the manual page could > > help users before enabling this feature :) > > I agree, and the manual page in the release will reflect bracketed paste's > default setting. However, readline doesn't try to enable bracketed paste if > tcgetattr fails, which it will on an fd that's not a terminal, so I am > fairly sure that expect/pexpect use ptys to masquerade as terminals.
They do -- or at least, the original Expect does. I'm guessing Pexpect follows Expect's lead here.