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

[Per Bothner]

On 2/24/22 23:12, Frederick Eaton wrote:
> But all the other interactive programs I use are based
> on Readline, and so I can't use the X clipboard with them, like I do
> with my custom bindings in Zsh and Emacs. If I could paste from the X
> clipboard (or some other shared clipboard) within Readline, then I
> think I would have no need for bracketed-paste-mode.

What do you mean you can't paste from the X clipboard? That is what
bracketed-paste-mode is meant to support.  Most modern terminal emulators
have a key-binding to paste from the clipboard. On Unix-like systems
it is usually Ctrl-Shift-V and/or Shift-Insert.

What are harder problem is
(a) the reverse problem: copying to clipboard; and
(b) co-oordinating with the X selection.

A related problem is that one should be able move the readline cursor
by clicking with the mouse.  (The DomTerm terminal implements this by sending
left-arrow/right-arrow commands as needed, when emabled by certain escape 
sequences.)t
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