[ale] Ubuntu 21.10 Released

[DJ-Pfulio]

On 10/21/21 7:04 AM, Scott Plante via Ale wrote:
> Would that be bash or the terminal GUI program? I don't believe bash
> itself knows if you're pasting or just typing fast. I bring it up
> because if it bothers you, you could look in the GUI settings, or try
> a different terminal program. Scott

I use plain xterms. Always have. As you can see, the xterm is running on the local system.
  $ xterm -geometry 80x25+2+670 $XTERM_OPTS -e ssh -X regulus &
It is bash that is the issue.

When it happened in 21.04, I looked up the issue and found a claimed fix with some bash settings, but that broke other things (totally screwed all terminal display in that window eventually), so I disabled it. Since I don't use non-LTS, I didn't worry about it. Was playing around with 21.10 and noticed the same issue both in whatever the default terminal is and in xterms.  "It's baaaaaaack", I thought.

I have to admit, it is odd when paste, paste, paste and paste into different windows, the same command and seeing it run in all but 1 of them - when they were each started exactly the same way, from the same system and the result should be the same across all systems.

If I don't want multi-line pasting (that's the easiest way to describe it, but seldom the way I use it), then I wouldn't ensure that the EOL was included, would I?  As many people here, I've made habits for how I work over the last 25+ yrs and there are times when I want to hop from terminal to terminal, each open on different systems and 
paste
paste
paste
paste
paste
paste
paste
expecting the contents of the buffer to be run, immediately.  At least they highlight the pasted text so I know I'm screwed.
BTW, it isn't related to X11 vs Wayland either. I checked.  It is the new bash.

Sure, there are all sorts of ways to accomplish the same thing without X and I use those too.
Get off my lawn. Leave the things that work they way they are by default, but make the "new" an option for 10 yrs. Let us grow into it.

New is the enemy of stable.