Pasting into nano etc. eats newlines and indentation

[humdinger]

This is hrev56563.

If I copy&paste something from a GUI editor like StyledEdit into an editor runnning in Terminal, like nano or ne, the newlines (CR? LF?) and tabs don't make it. For nano, the width of the Terminal window seems to determine where a line ends most times, it appears.

This block:

# Get optional 'action'
options="clean debug catkeys help h -h --h --help"
for item in $options ; do
	for opt in "$@" ; do
		if [ "$opt" = "$item" ] ; then
			action="$opt"
			break
		fi
	done
done

becomes pasted in nano:

# Get optional 'action'
options="clean debug catkeys help h -h --h --help" for item in $options ; do for opt in "$@"
        ; do
                if [ "$opt" = "$item" ] ; then action="$opt" break fi done
done

"ne", the 'nice editor' seems to interpret the first CR/LF(?) as some sort of command or something (not a big user of "ne" yet...), and jumps into a sort of input line at the bottom.

I did a quick check, it works as expected under linux.

[Not sure about the category for this ticket...]

[madmax]

Works in 'vim' in the same terminal.

I haven't tried 'ne', but the 'nano' case seems to be a keybinding clashing of some type. Looking in help, Ctrl-J (which in a terminal is the LF code) justifies the paragraph, and after pasting a [ Justified paragraph ] message is shown in the status line. The same effect as if you typed the text and pressed Ctrl-J. Like there's no distinction between recieving a key press and pasting its code. Whether that's a problem in the app, the terminal description or ncurses, I can't tell.

[humdinger]

Good call! In "ne"s case CRTL+J is a "jump to line", which pops the cursor to the bottom of the screen where it expects the line number to jump to.

[jessicah]

Bracketed paste needs to be implemented for nano (and maybe others) for correct paste behaviour.

​https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/tree/src/nano.c#n1226

​https://www.xfree86.org/current/ctlseqs.html#Bracketed%20Paste%20Mode

[jessicah]

Implementation: ​https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/5987

[waddlesplash]

Merged in hrev56695