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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
Cc: 24995@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24995: 25.1; Emacs manual: no doc on "bracketed paste mode"
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 05:25:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83oa10z3o1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArVCkQe6k3v-5pLYJftQuquuNR6U19To_z613xo723qBYYJ4Q@mail.gmail.com> (message from Philipp Stephani on Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:11:36 +0000)

> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:11:36 +0000
> Cc: 24995@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
>  > I do think it would be nice to let users disable use of this
>  > feature, even if the terminal supports it. Since we do that
>  > with other xterm extensions (see xterm-extra-capabilities),
>  > we should probably offer the same level of control for this
>  > capability, either as part of getSelection, or as a separate
>  > feature.
> 
>  Clearly.
> 
>  If Emacs can suddenly start supporting it then Emacs can
>  provide a way to turn it off (it was, in effect, off before).
> 
>  > Philipp, would you like to add this on the emacs-25 branch?
> 
>  Yes, thank you.
> 
> There shouldn't be any need for turning off bracketed pasting. It's just a separate input key sequence that is
> either sent or not sent by the terminal emulator. This isn't different from e.g. the Hyper key; there's also no
> option to disable the latter.

That is true, but we still allow the user to control the other similar
extensions, which all fit your description.  So why should support for
bracketed paste mode be different?  It's inconsistent, and I can't
think of a reason why we would want this inconsistency.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-28  3:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <<81ea90bf-11b8-4316-94b4-2815222b95d9@default>
     [not found] ` <<83vave5fbr.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-11-23 16:42   ` bug#24995: 25.1; Emacs manual: no doc on "bracketed paste mode" Drew Adams
2016-11-27 21:11     ` Philipp Stephani
2016-11-28  3:25       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-12-28 21:11         ` Philipp Stephani
2016-12-29 15:51           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-23  2:50 Drew Adams
2016-11-23  3:26 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-23 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-11  3:19   ` Stefan Kangas

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