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what some problems you've run into in the terminal with copy and paste? so far I have:
- pasting a URL with a `&` (or other character) in it without quotes
- pasting in many commands and one in the middle fails
- accidentally leaving in the '$'
- pasting in something with Fancy Quotes instead of normal quotes
- pasting a bash incantation into fish
- not knowing the keyboard shortcut to paste in a new terminal
- how Linux has two different clipboards
@b0rk depending on the terminal, multiline text can be _unpredictable_
@benmeier_ can you say more?
@b0rk @benmeier_ I've had text copied out from the terminal *sometimes* have the line wrapping from the terminal copied over with hard carriage returns and sometimes..not
@arrjay @b0rk @benmeier_ I also have this issue with tmux/screen. Even worse when you're using it from Mac to shell into something else. I had to rely on iterm2's tmux integration to get some sanity back.
@nashenas @b0rk @benmeier_ yeah, as a konsole user, I *think* it tries to behave differently for it's own paging vs tmux but it's never been super clear, I've often resorted to just piping what I need in temp files and using an out-of-terminal editor.
@benmeier_ @b0rk ooh yeah, especially when working with a serial port that is convinced the terminal size is smaller than the window - that one makes me really miss the "block copy" style that cmd prompts have