Re: vte widget improvement idea
The most sane thing would probably to treat the whole content of the paste as single command which implicitly means ignoring newlines or escaping them. The user can then ack the whole array of commands by a single enter key press. I find the idea in general pretty good. On Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 10:17 PM Gergely Polonkai gerg...@polonkai.eu wrote: I don't think it is a bad idea per se. Here are some ideas from me: • it should be either turned off by default • or it should warn the user like »hey, you are going to paste multiple lines, are you sure?« with an option to silence such warnings Also I remember a warning, maybe from ViM that warned me about such an occasion. This means that the terminal has some knowledge on this. On 11 Jun 2015 19:13, Wouter Verhelst w...@uter.be wrote: 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 ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
vte widget improvement idea
Hi I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this. I want to implement a new feature for the vte widget so I am interested to hear the opinion of other people about this. Sometimes I think I have something in the clipboard and paste it into the terminal just to realize I had something else (which is multiline). This can be dangerous. Also, it is not clear what will happen when pasting something copied from a website and it's cumbersome to check the clipboard every time. Both these problems can be avoided with user discipline but I believe there should be a way to reduce the possibility of making such mistakes. 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. After some thinking I am no longer sure if implementing this will be easy (or even possible). What I see as a problem is that the widget has to know if the pasted text goes to the shell or something else (e.g. text editor). One possible solution is to see whether the foreground process group of the terminal is the one of the starte d shell (this can be obtained with tcgetpgrp()). Any thoughts on this feature? Do you think this is a good idea? Any suggestions? ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
Re: vte widget improvement idea
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
Re: vte widget improvement idea
I don't think it is a bad idea per se. Here are some ideas from me: • it should be either turned off by default • or it should warn the user like »hey, you are going to paste multiple lines, are you sure?« with an option to silence such warnings Also I remember a warning, maybe from ViM that warned me about such an occasion. This means that the terminal has some knowledge on this. On 11 Jun 2015 19:13, Wouter Verhelst w...@uter.be wrote: 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 ___ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
