bash bracketed ("reverse video") paste

[Tom H]

On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 1:55 PM Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 01:20:29PM +0200, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> While searching the archive for a thread on a 21.04 bug, I saw an
>> email about stopping "reverse video" pasting.
>>
>> There are two ways to turn off this new bash (mis)feature:
>>
>> bind 'set enable-bracketed-paste off'
>> in bashrc
>>
>> or
>>
>> set enable-bracketed-paste off
>> in inputrc
>
> I deliberately *enable* bracketed paste on my systems. Having to
> intentionally press Enter after pasting something before it's
> interpreted as a command is great for avoiding mistakes.

If we could enable this feature without any highlighting, I'd use it.