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

[Warren Andrews]

EDIT: THIS IS THE WORKAROUND:
bind 'set enable-bracketed-paste off'

The proposed work around does NOT work for me. It could be due to the fact that it is over ssh?
I am sshing from 18.04 into 22.04.
Bash version on former is 4.4.20(1)-release
Bash version on latter is 5.1.16(1)-release

I CANNOT work with this 'feature' enabled. Please help. Thanks. (And
this security argument makes no sense to me... why would I paste text
into a terminal which I didn't select?)

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

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

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

  [[Workaround]]

  * On 22.04, add 'set enable-bracketed-paste off' to /etc/inputrc
  * Starting 22.10, add 'set enable-active-region off' to /etc/inputrc

  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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