On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 03:36:23PM +0000, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > I know I don't like xterm so I never use it. I mainly use lxterminal > and sometimes gnome-terminal but they both must be 'exotic' since they > behave as David said.
The following NEW packages will be installed: libvte-2.91-0 libvte-2.91-common lxterminal Hmm, OK, that's not bad. First thing I try: Ctrl-v Ctrl-v (at a bash prompt). This gives ^V as expected. Second thing I try: Ctrl-v Shift-Ctrl-v. This gives a long-ish paste of what appears to be base64-encoded content, but beginning with ^[[200~ (start of bracketed paste). There's probably another escape sequence at the end (end of bracketed paste?) but with no Ctrl-V acting upon it, it's not visible. So I guess this Shift-Ctrl-v is something that's handled directly by the terminal emulator, and does *not* result in a byte sequence that's interpreted by the application. That answers one of my questions, at least. There is ... almost no documentation, however. "man lxterminal" gives a stub man page written by the Debian maintainer. The /usr/share/doc directory is barren as well: unicorn:/usr/share/doc/lxterminal$ ls changelog.Debian.gz changelog.gz copyright So I guess people learn about lxterminal features like Shift-Ctrl-v by word of mouth...? The terminal has a menu bar with a Help option. The Help menu has exactly one choice: About. About gives a popup window with a link to <http://www.lxde.org/>. Going there and clicking the WIKI button leads me to <https://wiki.lxde.org/en/> which is a 404 page. *sigh*
