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Your proposed remedy is for the shell to insert something different than what the user inputs. That is much more surprising. No program works that way.
by ridiculous_fish 8y ago
Your proposed remedy is for the shell to insert something different than what the user inputs. That is much more surprising. No program works that way.
- darkpuma 8y agoNo program other than a shell requires that a URL copied out of your browser's address bar be escaped. Users may not be accustomed to a program escaping or quoting text they paste, but they're also definitely not accustomed to escaping or quoting strings manually.
- michaelmrose 8y agoHow do you propose that people use a shell without learning about escaping. How many people actually using fish are liable to be confused. Its a strange world you seem to be describing where people simultaneously prefer to use mpv in the terminal instead of clicking on a link but can't figure out how to quote the url. You can actually set it up for example in Firefox so you can open a link in mpv instead and skip a step. You could trivially make a quoted paste function and bind it in fish. This fixes the problem for you it would seem.