[ale] Ubuntu 21.10 Released

[Horkan Smith]

DJ, do you have a search string or some links I can look at?  Is it the bracketed-paste mode?

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1334205/pasted-text-in-gnome-terminal-in-21-04-is-always-highlighted
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35611134/bash-bracketed-paste-is-it-supported
https://cirw.in/blog/bracketed-paste
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/BracketedPasteBehaviorNotes

thanks!
   horkan

On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 10:37:11AM -0400, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
>On 10/21/21 7:04 AM, Scott Plante via Ale wrote:
>> Would that be bash or the terminal GUI program? I don't believe bash
>> itself knows if you're pasting or just typing fast. I bring it up
>> because if it bothers you, you could look in the GUI settings, or try
>> a different terminal program. Scott
>
>I use plain xterms. Always have. As you can see, the xterm is running on the local system.
>  $ xterm -geometry 80x25+2+670 $XTERM_OPTS -e ssh -X regulus &
>It is bash that is the issue.
>
>When it happened in 21.04, I looked up the issue and found a claimed fix with some bash settings, but that broke other things (totally screwed all terminal display in that window eventually), so I disabled it. Since I don't use non-LTS, I didn't worry about it. Was playing around with 21.10 and noticed the same issue both in whatever the default terminal is and in xterms.  "It's baaaaaaack", I thought.
>
>I have to admit, it is odd when paste, paste, paste and paste into different windows, the same command and seeing it run in all but 1 of them - when they were each started exactly the same way, from the same system and the result should be the same across all systems.
>
>If I don't want multi-line pasting (that's the easiest way to describe it, but seldom the way I use it), then I wouldn't ensure that the EOL was included, would I?  As many people here, I've made habits for how I work over the last 25+ yrs and there are times when I want to hop from terminal to terminal, each open on different systems and
>paste
>paste
>paste
>paste
>paste
>paste
>paste
>expecting the contents of the buffer to be run, immediately.  At least they highlight the pasted text so I know I'm screwed.
>BTW, it isn't related to X11 vs Wayland either. I checked.  It is the new bash.
>
>Sure, there are all sorts of ways to accomplish the same thing without X and I use those too.
>Get off my lawn. Leave the things that work they way they are by default, but make the "new" an option for 10 yrs. Let us grow into it.
>
>New is the enemy of stable.
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