Debian Bug report logs - #972344
bash automatically selects the copied text

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antonio <antdev66@gmail.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: bash automatically selects the copied text

Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 17:07:57 +0200

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Package: bash
Version: 5.1~rc1-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
after updating bash to version 5.1 ~ rc1-2 I noticed a new behavior: when
you paste a text it is automatically selected.
This however creates confusion as on plasma / konsole as the text is
confused with the cursor (block), placed at the end of the word.
How can I disable this new feature?
Thank you,
Antonio De Lorenzi

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Message #10 received at 972344@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>

To: Antonio <antdev66@gmail.com>, 972344@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#972344: bash automatically selects the copied text

Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 19:48:00 +0200

On 10/16/20 5:07 PM, Antonio wrote:
> Package: bash
> Version: 5.1~rc1-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> after updating bash to version 5.1 ~ rc1-2 I noticed a new behavior: when
> you paste a text it is automatically selected.
> This however creates confusion as on plasma / konsole as the text is
> confused with the cursor (block), placed at the end of the word.
> How can I disable this new feature?

please could you forward that issue upstream, using the bashbug script?

Thanks, Matthias

Message #15 received at 972344@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tomas Janousek <tomi@nomi.cz>

To: Antonio <antdev66@gmail.com>, 972344@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#972344: bash automatically selects the copied text

Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 14:50:57 +0000

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 05:07:57PM +0200, Antonio wrote:
> after updating bash to version 5.1 ~ rc1-2 I noticed a new behavior: when
> you paste a text it is automatically selected.
> This however creates confusion as on plasma / konsole as the text is
> confused with the cursor (block), placed at the end of the word.
> How can I disable this new feature?

This seems to be related to this bash changelog entry:

f. New active mark and face feature: when enabled, it will highlight the text
   inserted by a bracketed paste (the `active region') and the text found by
   incremental and non-incremental history searches.

There's also this in CWRU/changes that seems related:

- rl_activate_mark,rl_deactivate_mark,rl_mark_is_active_p,
  rl_keep_mark_active: new functions to manage an active region. We
  don't do anything with an active region yet. Part of a large patch
  for active regions from Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
  originally back in 3/2018

Unfortunately it seems there is no way to not enable it.

Might indeed be a good idea to ping upstream and/or Daniel Colascione about
this.

-- 
Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Pivník, a.k.a. Liskni_si, https://work.lisk.in/

Message #20 received at 972344@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Tomas Janousek <tomi@nomi.cz>

To: Antonio <antdev66@gmail.com>, 972344@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#972344: bash automatically selects the copied text

Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 15:00:27 +0000

Hi again,

On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 02:50:58PM +0000, Tomas Janousek wrote:
> Might indeed be a good idea to ping upstream and/or Daniel Colascione about
> this.

Oh, turns out someone already did: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2020-10/msg00067.html
Chet answered that it can be disabled by disabling bracketed paste: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2020-10/msg00082.html
but I don't think that is a good option, so I'll try to persuade him to make
this configurable separately.

-- 
Tomáš Janoušek, a.k.a. Pivník, a.k.a. Liskni_si, https://work.lisk.in/

Message #25 received at 972344@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: 王昊然 <msl0000023508@gmail.com>

To: 972344@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#972344: bash automatically selects the copied text

Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 12:44:38 +0800

I also found this feature causes confusing in some terminals. However
disabling bracketed paste for BASH worked good enough for me: just
adding 'bind "set enable-bracketed-paste off"' into /etc/bash.bashrc.

Message #30 received at 972344@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: 王昊然 <msl0000023508@gmail.com>

To: 972344@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#972344: bash automatically selects the copied text

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 20:59:39 +0800

I just found another issue with this new BASH/Readline bug/feature.
Even with 'bind "set enable-bracketed-paste off"', BASH 5.1 still
behaving differently from previous versions: if pasted text contains
new lines, BASH 5.1 would still buffering the pasted text, rather than
evaluating the pasted text as commands immediately as I expected. This
behavior is very annoying for me because I'm very used to repeat some
commands quickly by copy-pasting them.

Message #35 received at 972344@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: 王昊然 <msl0000023508@gmail.com>

To: 972344@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#972344: bash automatically selects the copied text

Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 21:06:09 +0800

While adding 'enable-bracketed-paste off' into inputrc appears fixed
this issue, no idea why it didn't fully work with bashrc only.

2021-01-14 20:59 GMT+08:00, 王昊然 <msl0000023508@gmail.com>:
> I just found another issue with this new BASH/Readline bug/feature.
> Even with 'bind "set enable-bracketed-paste off"', BASH 5.1 still
> behaving differently from previous versions: if pasted text contains
> new lines, BASH 5.1 would still buffering the pasted text, rather than
> evaluating the pasted text as commands immediately as I expected. This
> behavior is very annoying for me because I'm very used to repeat some
> commands quickly by copy-pasting them.
>

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