From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
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: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 18:30:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vave5fbr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81ea90bf-11b8-4316-94b4-2815222b95d9@default> (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:50:24 -0800 (PST))
> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:50:24 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> What is touted as a "nifty new feature" and an "advanced capability"
> in the Antinews is not mentioned anywhere else.
That's inaccurate: it is mentioned in NEWS. (How do you think
Antinews is being prepared?)
> If it's so nifty and advanced, say something about it, somewhere.
> What is it? What can I do with it?
The bracketed paste mode is not an Emacs feature, it's a feature of
the terminal. Emacs just uses it when it thinks it's available. If
you want to learn about this, you should look in the terminal-related
documentation, or on the net. I don't think Emacs should describe
features of terminals it runs on.
> In particular, how do you turn it off?
> http://emacs.stackexchange.com/q/28851/105
>
> `C-h f brack TAB' didn't help.
> `C-h v brack TAB' didn't help.
>
> As the OP for that question said, googling didn't help.
That's fine, because there's no way to turn it off, so there's nothing
to document.
IOW, I don't think there's any documentation problem here.
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.
Philipp, would you like to add this on the emacs-25 branch?
TIA
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-23 2:50 bug#24995: 25.1; Emacs manual: no doc on "bracketed paste mode" Drew Adams
2016-11-23 3:26 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-23 16:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-11-11 3:19 ` Stefan Kangas
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[not found] ` <<83vave5fbr.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-11-23 16:42 ` Drew Adams
2016-11-27 21:11 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-11-28 3:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-28 21:11 ` Philipp Stephani
2016-12-29 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
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