bug#24995: 25.1; Emacs manual: no doc on "bracketed paste mode"

[Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>]

tags 24995 + wontfix
close 24995
thanks

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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.

With the above, and seeing nothing else to do here, I'll close this as
wontfix.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas