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Julia Evans

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

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Ben Meier

@b0rk depending on the terminal, multiline text can be _unpredictable_

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rj

@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

Ben Meier

@arrjay @b0rk yeah, outside of a HEREDOC, it can be very prompt- and environment dependent whether new lines are kept, escaped, or trigger execution. And this can sometimes be odd when going through proxies, KVM, or other tunneled layers.

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rj

@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

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