On 6/21/20 4:35 AM, baldu...@units.it wrote: > hello > > I actually don't know if this is a real problem with 5.1-alpha or if > it's something related to my environment and/or build procedure > > The problem is the following > > If I paste in a terminal running 5.1-alpha a string stored in the primary X > selection, the string is inserted in reverse video
It's not a bug. This is the `active region' code displaying the text inserted by a bracketed paste. You can see some of the most recent discussion here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2020-03/msg00064.html The original patch was from 2018: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2018-03/msg00056.html This has a basic description of the functionality and rationale. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
