Re: bracketed-paste-mode should default to "off"

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/31/22 11:47 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> 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.

You're right, it's an opinion.

> 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.

That's another opinion.

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

These are clearly subjective terms.

> (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.)

This is one problem with the degree of separation between what the distros
choose to expose and what I release. The release announcement for
readline-8.1, for instance, includes:

"Bracketed paste mode is enabled by default; there is a configure-time
option to make the default setting disabled."

> 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. 

You can do this now.


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