And, for those not running osx:
codemonkey@monkeytree ~/W/MonkeyTools> alias pbcopy 'xsel --clipboard
--input'
codemonkey@monkeytree ~/W/MonkeyTools> alias pbpaste 'xsel --clipboard
--output'
-Dave
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Jon Clayden <jon.clay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fair enough, but then why have the shell insert the ellipsis
> characters in the first place? Personally I would rather not have the
> visual continuation cue and be able to copy/paste simply. Long
> commands can be copy/pasted perfectly successfully under bash, so
> unless Terminal.app does something special in that case(?), it seems
> like it is something that the shell can influence. Admittedly I don't
> know the details of what goes on under the surface here, but I'm
> slightly surprised that this is so controversial.
>
> Jon
>
>
> On 23 August 2012 08:33, pants <pa...@cs.hmc.edu> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 08:24:55AM +0100, Jon Clayden wrote:
> >> Surely it would be possible, however, for the shell to ignore the
> >> ellipsis/newline sequence, at the very least? Rewriting the command to
> >> remove it would be better still, but perhaps that's more tricky.
> >
> > Possible, but hardly desirable. In general, programming a shell to
> > second-guess user input is not a good practice. Suppose I wanted to
> > enter an ellipsis character followed by a newline in some script I was
> > writing on the command line; with a change as you describe, this is no
> > longer possible.
> >
> > pants.
> >
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