Chet Ramey wrote: > Tomas Janousek wrote: > > Chet Ramey wrote: > >> Yes, you can disable bracketed paste mode. I'll make sure that turning off > >> bracketed paste mode disables the active region for incremental searches. > > > > Would you please consider making this configurable separately? I'd love to > > keep bracketed paste mode enabled, but I find the highlighting annoying > > (and a > > bit buggy, more on that later). It seems I'm not alone: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=972344
I would also much prefer if the highlight was separate. > I'm going to see what the reaction is with bash-5.1 and go from there. The > entire rationale for including this feature was to highlight the text a > bracketed paste inserts. Since there was no separate use, and the > contributed patch didn't include a configuration option, I didn't add one. Highlighting the region is a completely separate concept from bracketed paste mode as the region is used in many completely unrelated places. It pains me that they are coupled. Bob
