Copy paste buffer in console

[wdo]

Dear community,

Previously, in rocky 8, using copy/paste on terminal launch directly commands.

In rocky 9, it seems that a buffer is used. All commands are written in terminal, but waiting to be applied with “Enter”

So I’m searching where is defined this buffer size?

Thanks for your feedback

[jlehtone]

The feature is bracketed paste: Bracketed-paste - Wikipedia

In RHEL 9 (and hence Rocky 9) there is readline 8.1 and it enables bracketed paste mode by default: 2079078 – readline-8.1 enables bracketed paste mode by default

It is possible to turn that off:

set enable-bracketed-paste off

man readline writes:

enable-bracketed-paste (On)
When set to On, readline will configure the terminal in a way that will enable it to insert each paste into the editing buffer as a single string of characters, instead of treating each character as if it had been read from the keyboard. This can prevent pasted characters from being interpreted as editing commands.

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What is the size of buffer that is used by readline/bash/terminal? I have no idea.

[wdo]

Thanks for the information.
In fact having this option is not a problem as soon as I’m able to increase the buffer size.
But I keep your solution in mind, could be helpful when I will have to paste a large buffer