bracketed-paste-mode should default to "off"

[Karl O. Pinc]

Hello,

There are obviously matters of taste here and I don't
want to start a flame war, but IMO, bracketed-paste-mode
should be off by default.

My argument is that Unix should come with the training
wheels off, by default.  The same reason `cp -i` or `mv -i`
is not the default.  If people want "safety" they can
frob the per-user (or per-distro) settings.

"Simple" and "obvious" seems more useful than "safe".
"Standard is better than better."  Changing the standard
makes me cranky.

(FWIW, It took a couple of months of being annoyed at my pastes
not "working", after a major distro upgrade which installed
a new readline, to get around to digging into why pasteing
wasn't working.  And then a good hour to find the problem,
frob my systems' /etc/inputrc, write this bug report, etc.)

Absent having bracketed paste off by default, it might be nice
to have a /etc/inputrc.d/ directory that can have it's contents
included by /etc/inputrc.  That way there's not another
config file that's different from the distro default that
has to have changes merged on system upgrade.  (On the third
hand, yet more complication....)

Regards,

Karl <kop@karlpinc.com>
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