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 feature? Do you think this is a good idea? Any > suggestions?
To be honest, I think that's a terrible idea. You're assuming that pasting something into a shell is always a bad idea. It is if you did it by accident, but if you do it on purpose, it isn't. If I mail my customer to please paste these two commands from their mail into a shell window, I don't want to have to tell them to switch off this "protection" first. If I have a web page with documentation which says that "to create a new user, first run adduser <usxername>, and then run passwd <username>", I don't want to have to tack on "but you can't paste that in the shell window". There are plenty of valid uses for pasting something into a terminal window. Let's not throw the kid out with the bath water. -- It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer -- Barack Obama, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, 2014-03-26 _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
