From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24995: 25.1; Emacs manual: no doc on "bracketed paste mode" Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 05:25:34 +0200 Message-ID: <83oa10z3o1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <6f46675c-658e-4036-b03e-252a52170bc6@default> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1480303578 8948 195.159.176.226 (28 Nov 2016 03:26:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 03:26:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 24995@debbugs.gnu.org To: Philipp Stephani Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 28 04:26:13 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cBCa5-0000qh-4S for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2016 04:26:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56543 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBCa4-0007t6-D8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2016 22:26:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37757) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBCZx-0007t0-GF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2016 22:26:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBCZu-0006fn-7B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2016 22:26:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:56910) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBCZu-0006fe-2u for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2016 22:26:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cBCZt-0000qt-Uo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2016 22:26:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 03:26:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 24995 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 24995-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B24995.14803035473251 (code B ref 24995); Mon, 28 Nov 2016 03:26:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 24995) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Nov 2016 03:25:47 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44076 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cBCZf-0000qN-8G for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2016 22:25:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46738) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cBCZe-0000qA-99 for 24995@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2016 22:25:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBCZV-0006bH-WD for 24995@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 27 Nov 2016 22:25:41 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35500) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cBCZV-0006bC-Mu; Sun, 27 Nov 2016 22:25:37 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2276 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cBCZU-0005tt-Ko; Sun, 27 Nov 2016 22:25:37 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Philipp Stephani on Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:11:36 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:126202 Archived-At: > From: Philipp Stephani > 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.