Re: Strange problem when pasting text into vile

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Chris Green wrote in
 <Zx9nWJdYiodXGkK3@q957>:
 |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.

Does vile support bracketed paste mode?  Doing a

  git grep -i 'bracketed' master

does not show something relevant.
That would be fun given how causal Thomas Dickey was for the
feature as such, *if* i recall correctly.

--steffen
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