Freshly released bash-5.2 allows to disable the highlighting of pasted text (while keeping the "bracketed paste mode" functionality enabled), or even to define custom highlighting.
You need to place something like this in your .inputrc: set enable-active-region off or set active-region-start-color "\e[42m" # change it to whatever you wish set active-region-end-color "\e[m" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to bash in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1926256 Title: Pasted text in the terminal is always highlighted and selected Status in bash package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in mate-terminal package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in readline package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in vte2.91 package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Steps to reproduce: 1. Have Ubuntu 21.04 installed 2. Launch terminal 3a. Execute some command, select this command to copy it, then paste command 3b. Paste some command from clipboard to terminal Expected result: * pasted command is not highlighted and is not selected Actual result: * pasted command is selected and highlighted ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04 Package: mate-terminal 1.24.1-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-16.17-generic 5.11.12 Uname: Linux 5.11.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CurrentDesktop: MATE Date: Tue Apr 27 09:43:56 2021 InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-04-23 (3 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Release amd64 (20210420) SourcePackage: mate-terminal UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/1926256/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
