Re: Strange problem when pasting text into vile

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 10:13:44AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> I have a peculiar problem when pasting text into vile.
> 
> When I paste text vile seems to see a collection of rather random
> commands rather than just the pasted text.  I've checked thoroughly
> that the past doesn't contain any extra control characters or anything
> like that, everywhere else I paste the same text I get just the pasted
> characters and nothing else.
> 
> The same text pastes into xvile with no problems.
> 
> This is 'middle button' paste on xubuntu Linux.
> 
> 
> For example when I select the word 'pasting' in this E-Mail and paste
> it into an empty buffer of another instance of file I get 'MSTINGEPI'
> at the top of the empty buffer.
> 
> Even more wierdly pasting the same text into this instance of vile
> (being used to compose this E-Mail works perfectly).
> 
> So maybe this is something to do with the terminal window that vile is
> running in.  But pasting the same text in the terminal outside of vile
> shows no oddities.
> 
> Any ideas what might be causing this?  It's been happening for quite a
> while now but I've only just got fed up enough with it to do
> something! :-)
> 
Ah, doing 'reset' in the terminal window where vile is acting oddly
fixes the problem.  Now all I have to do is work out what changes the
terminal state such that vile goes wonky.

I'll just have to check when it next happens and then look back
through the shell history to see what might have caused the problem.
I can also maybe look at the terminal settings next time it happens to
see what specific setting is causing the issue.

-- 
Chris Green