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

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/3/22 4:09 PM, Per Bothner wrote:
> On 2/3/22 12:36, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > > An alternative idea: A user-settable highlight style for the *entire*
> > > active input area - pasted text as well  a directy-typed characters.
> > > Even better: Two user-selectable styles, one for the current active 
> > > input area,
> > > and one for previous input areas.  (Once you type Enter, the highlight 
> > > style
> > > of the input area is changed from the current-input to previous-input 
> > > style.)
> > >
> > > I've implemented support for something like this in my DomTerm
> > > terminal emulator, and I think it is pretty nice.
> >
> > What's the `active input area'? A series of characters bound to self-
> > insert? And what delimits it? A character bound to an editing command?
>
> By "active input area" I mean the text in the terminal that can be edited:
> what gets sent to the application on Enter.  More precisely, the section
> of the visible terminal corresponding to that text.  The area after the 
> prompt,
> and up to the last entered (or pasted) character.

Then you can essentially do that now, using $PROMPT_COMMAND and $PS0.

I just don't see any particular advantage to doing it.

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