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		jwilk on Oct 30, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bracketed paste mode (2013) Beware that some terminals implements bracketed paste mode in a way that doesn't protect you from malicious pastes. For example, urxvt is broken in this regard, and the maintainer doesn't seem to be interested in fixing it: https://bugs.debian.org/787628

pmoriarty on Oct 30, 2018 [–]

This is a fascinating discussion on the philosophical differences in approaches to how pasting is supposed to work, and from skimming through it, it doesn't seem obvious to me which way is best. Reasonable people can disagree.

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