Re: 300 baud V.21 terminal emulation

[John W. Eaton]

On 10/04/2013 07:37 AM, Mike Miller wrote:

> You can certainly try adding this directive to Octave's inputrc and see
> if it helps, but don't do anything like trying to force a reload to
> override user prefs.

I agree that it is almost always bad to override user preferences. 
However, in the case of pasting to the GUI, we should be able to 
temporarily turn off the blinking paren matching thing while performing 
the paste.  I don't think that would be bad.  I would not turn it off by 
default for other forms of input.  For the cli version, I don't think we 
have any way of knowing whether the input is from a paste operation or 
interactive input.  But for the GUI we do, and I can't imagine anyone 
caring that paren matching is disabled when the input comes from a paste 
operation.

If you are complaining about pastes generally being slow, then that is a 
readline bug.  Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to automatically and 
reliably test for that bug.

jwe