[Bug 1926256] Re: Pasted text in the terminal is always highlighted and selected

[Egmont Koblinger]

> h. Bracketed paste mode is enabled by default.
> If so, it looks like this "feature" can be disabled. How?

The way to disable bracketed paste mode is presumably to place this in .inputrc:
set enable-bracketed-paste off

But DON'T do this! Bracketed paste mode is an important safety measure
against malicious or accidental pastes that contain embedded newlines.
See https://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste .

What you should be looking for is to preserve bracketed paste mode, yet
revert to no highlighting, or customize the highlighting colors. I don't
know how to do that because I haven't studied this new bash "feature"
yet. If you look it up and find it, please post the answer here :)

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Title:
  Pasted text in the terminal is always highlighted and selected

Status in bash package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in mate-terminal package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in vte2.91 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Have Ubuntu 21.04 installed
  2. Launch terminal
  3a. Execute some command, select this command to copy it, then paste command
  3b. Paste some command from clipboard to terminal

  Expected result:
  * pasted command is not highlighted and is not selected

  Actual result:
  * pasted command is selected and highlighted

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
  Package: mate-terminal 1.24.1-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-16.17-generic 5.11.12
  Uname: Linux 5.11.0-16-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CurrentDesktop: MATE
  Date: Tue Apr 27 09:43:56 2021
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-04-23 (3 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Release amd64 (20210420)
  SourcePackage: mate-terminal
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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