[Konsole-devel] Feature request: do-not-paste-linefeeds

[Jekyll Wu]

On 2011年09月28日 22:31, Reeted wrote:
> Hello all
> I am a fond user or konsole, and working as a sysadmin
>
> A few times I risked doing big damages because of mistaken paste. Like 
> I thought I had something else in the copy-buffer.
>
> I have already disabled middle-click paste from xorg, so that at least 
> now I have only 1 buffer to worry about, but sometimes this is not 
> enough and I still paste the wrong thing.
>
> This is very risky when I am root: I cannot see in advance what I am 
> pasting and when I see it it's too late because it might very well 
> have newlines in it and hence give the command immediately.
>
> Would you please implement an option which disables pasting of 
> newlines, maybe converting them to \\n (slash + newline) or cutting 
> them away completely?
>
>
> Most useful probably would be if you could add a different 
> (customizable) hotkey for pasting without newlines:
>
> - the current paste hotkey would remain with unchanged functionality
> - the additional hotkey "paste-without-newlines" would paste with 
> newlines removed, replaced by blanks or escaped with slashes, whatever.
>
> So that people would use the risky hotkey only when they are really 
> really sure of what they are doing
>
>
> Thank you for your great work
> R.
>
>
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Thanks for your advice.

There has been a similar feature request[1] for a long time. You can add 
your advice there as new comment or open another feature request. Advice 
posted on this ML are surely to be flooded by other messages and forgotton.

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89299

Jekyll
Best Regards