On 2010-08-10 16:05 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Andre Majorel wrote: > > Binding printable ASCII characters to readline functions is > > convenient but it can bite you when you paste text into a shell. > > > > Is there a way to bypass readline while pasting ? Something like > > a ^V toggle or a ^V that lasts until the next newline or next > > pause between two characters longer than 250 ms or... > > are you trying to write that text to a file or something ?
I wish I were, I could just type "cat >file" before pasting and ^D after. No, it's just strings, file names, whole command lines, that sort of stuff. -- André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/