Re: bracketed paste ANSI sequence on non-ANSI terminals

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/6/23 12:29 PM, Hans Lub wrote:
> ncurses appears to have introduced capabilities for bracketed paste.
>  From ncurses NEWS:
>
> > 20221224
> >     [...]
> >       + add/use bracketed+paste to help identify terminals supporting this
> >         xterm feature (prompted by discussion with Bram Moolenaar) -TD
>
> They are: BD and BE (Disable/Enable bracketed paste) and PS, PE
> (Start/End pasted text):
>
> > BD=\E[?2004l, BE=\E[?2004h, PE=\E[201~, PS=\E[200~,

This is reasonable, and these are the sequences everyone uses. But it
doesn't help the current situation.

> Vim recognises  them (see
> https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/7b8db111e819bcb07cff6fc451584b0e3e0a49fd).
> I think it would be a
> good idea for readline to use them as well.

I'm ok with a future version of readline turning on bracketed paste if
it's off and these capabilities exist, but not vice versa. It will be a
long time before all the terminal descriptions have incorporated them.


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