From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Philipp Stephani
> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:11:36 +0000
> Cc: 24995@debbugs.gnu.org
>
>=C2=A0 > I do think it would be nice to let users disable use of thi= s
>=C2=A0 > feature, even if the terminal supports it. Since we do that=
>=C2=A0 > with other xterm extensions (see xterm-extra-capabilities),=
>=C2=A0 > we should probably offer the same level of control for this=
>=C2=A0 > capability, either as part of getSelection, or as a separat= e
>=C2=A0 > feature.
>
>=C2=A0 Clearly.
>
>=C2=A0 If Emacs can suddenly start supporting it then Emacs can
>=C2=A0 provide a way to turn it off (it was, in effect, off before).
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>=C2=A0 > Philipp, would you like to add this on the emacs-25 branch?=
>
>=C2=A0 Yes, thank you.
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> There shouldn't be any need for turning off bracketed pasting. It&= #39;s just a separate input key sequence that is
> either sent or not sent by the terminal emulator. This isn't diffe= rent 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.=C2=A0 So why should support for=
bracketed paste mode be different?=C2=A0 It's inconsistent, and I can= 39;t
think of a reason why we would want this inconsistency.