xterm (or x11) pastes are highlighted

[n952162]

On 3/18/22 00:22, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 at 20:32, René Berber wrote:
>> On 3/17/2022 1:03 PM, n952162 wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone know how I can disable the highlighting that occurs when I
>>> copy and paste in xterm?
>>>
>>> Escape sequences are added to achieve that and sometimes they're not
>>> being properly interpreted.
>>>
>>> Why would I want that anyway?
>> The same thing happens to (plain, non X windows) mintty.
>>
>> It started recently, maybe a couple of weeks.  No idea how to fix it,
>> haven't really tried.
>>
>> Very annoying.
> It came in with the readline 8.1 update in September last year, which
> enabled "bracketed paste mode" by default. (I think zsh has had it
> enabled for a few years.)
>
> As n952162 said, it tells the terminal to enclose pasted text in
> escape sequences.
>
> There are several points to this:
> - It stops accidental multi-line pastes from getting immediately
> executed line by line.
> - It makes it easier to undo a paste, as you can cut it out in one go
> rather than deleting manually.
> - Pasting can be faster, as the application can process the paste in
> one chunk rather than treating it as char-by-char keyboard input.
>
> But yep, sometimes it can go wonky, in particular when the bracketing
> mode for some reason is left on for an application that doesn't expect
> it.
>
> For readline, it can be disabled in ~/.inputrc:
>
> set enable-bracketed-paste off
>
> Regards,
> Andy
>

Thank you for a very informative and helpful response!