[BRLTTY] RFC: possible user-interface for bracketed paste
Nicolas Pitre
nico at fluxnic.net
Tue Apr 1 16:26:26 UTC 2025
On Tue, 1 Apr 2025, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2025/03/31 at 23:29 +0200]
>
> >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.
I'd rather lean towards a long press for the bracketed paste. Less
likely to happen unintentionally, or end up with a double paste.
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