bug#43847: ERC - prevent yanking multiple lines into IRC (feature request) *patch*

[Kévin Le Gouguec]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st> writes:
>
>> I hate it when I accidentally paste multi-line text into ERC.  I
>> *never* actually intend to do this.
>
> I sometimes want to, and sometimes I don't want to.  I think it would be
> pretty surprising for users if we rebind `C-y' in this way.

Seconded.  I think a whitespace-fixing yank command could be useful in
more situations than just ERC; OTOH I'd much rather keep C-y as a
"reliably dumb" yank in all contexts, at least by default.