[BRLTTY] RFC: possible user-interface for bracketed paste

Dave Mielke Dave at mielke.cc
Tue Apr 1 09:05:16 UTC 2025


[quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2025/03/31 at 23:29 +0200]

>Basically: a new preference called default paste style and which can
>take the values bracketed and non-bracketed, or something similar.
>
>When the paste command is done once, paste is done in its default style.
>When the command is invoked twice with a short (configurable?) delay
>between the consecutive invocations, then it's the other paste which is
>performed.

That'd make pasting appear to be slow as pressing it once would have to wait for the double-press timeout.

Also, the user would always be unsure as to whether or not he issued those two presses close enough together because there's no visible way to actually know which one was done.

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