On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 04:57:43PM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > Chris Green wrote in > <Zx9nWJdYiodXGkK3@q957>: > |On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 10:13:44AM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > |> I have a peculiar problem when pasting text into vile. > |> > |> When I paste text vile seems to see a collection of rather random > |> commands rather than just the pasted text. I've checked thoroughly > |> that the past doesn't contain any extra control characters or anything > |> like that, everywhere else I paste the same text I get just the pasted > |> characters and nothing else. > |> > |> The same text pastes into xvile with no problems. > |> > |> This is 'middle button' paste on xubuntu Linux. > |> > |> > |> For example when I select the word 'pasting' in this E-Mail and paste > |> it into an empty buffer of another instance of file I get 'MSTINGEPI' > |> at the top of the empty buffer. > |> > |> Even more wierdly pasting the same text into this instance of vile > |> (being used to compose this E-Mail works perfectly). > |> > |> So maybe this is something to do with the terminal window that vile is > |> running in. But pasting the same text in the terminal outside of vile > |> shows no oddities. > |> > |> Any ideas what might be causing this? It's been happening for quite a > |> while now but I've only just got fed up enough with it to do > |> something! :-) > |> > |Ah, doing 'reset' in the terminal window where vile is acting oddly > |fixes the problem. Now all I have to do is work out what changes the > |terminal state such that vile goes wonky. > | > |I'll just have to check when it next happens and then look back > |through the shell history to see what might have caused the problem. > |I can also maybe look at the terminal settings next time it happens to > |see what specific setting is causing the issue. > > Does vile support bracketed paste mode? Doing a
That could be a problem, e.g., if one's running some shell (or script) which turns it on and doesn't bother to turn it off when running commands. Not just for vile. > git grep -i 'bracketed' master > > does not show something relevant. > That would be fun given how causal Thomas Dickey was for the > feature as such, *if* i recall correctly. https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm-paste64.html -- Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]> https://invisible-island.net
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