(Author of the original paper here.) Bracketed paste mode is good and ideally it just works(tm) and therefore people don't need to know about it. It does just

(Author of the original paper here.) Bracketed paste mode is good and ideally it just works(tm) and therefore people don't need to know about it. It does just work in recent versions bash (readline) and Zsh. Unfortunately there is still poor handling of it in some terminals. I posted[1] yesterday on oss-security that ^C for example can be placed on the clipboard and may end bracketed paste mode in some circumstances. For xterm that can be mitigated by adding "ETX" to disallowedPasteControls[2]: disallowedPasteControls: BS,DEL,ENQ,EOT,ETX,ESC,NUL That still isn't enough (e.g. ^\ or ^Z can be used too in some contexts). Other terminals are looking at this currently (e.g. kitty[3]). I suspect there will be some other patches coming out. [1]: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/20/2 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/20/2 [2]: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/20/4 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/20/4 [3]: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/commit/defa2e29ac1eacd130fcffa300d9be8f6e76ddfc https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/commit/defa2e29ac1eacd13...