Re: mhfixmsg character set conversion

[Steven Winikoff]

>  | in bash, although the line gets pasted, the newline at the end of it
>  | somehow doesn't.  When 
>
>This is a recent bash (IMO mis-)feature -

I absolutely agree with your opinion on this topic.


>I believe there's an option (run time) to return to sanity, as I think I
>set it ...  but just now I cannot find it!

A quick web search for "bash xterm paste newline" turns up

   
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/633370/bash-needs-another-newline-to-execute-pasted-lines

The summary is to add the following entry to ~/.inputrc

   set enable-bracketed-paste off

I just tried this, and it works.  Thank you for pointing that out!

     - Steven
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