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[Egmont Koblinger <egmont@xxxxxxxxx>]

To everyone suffering from this bug:

You could maybe - as a terrible workaround - disable "bracketed paste mode" from your shell prompt.  In case of bash, you might want to alter your PS1 to contain
$'... \[\e[?2004l\] ...'
or set PROMPT_COMMAND to echo $'\e[?2004l'.

When pressing ^O to return to the subshell in mc, you might need to
press Enter once for the prompt to get printed, but then at least you
can copy without those extra character.  Also, probably you won't see
bracketed paste's advantages when copying text into mc's built-in
editor.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1350334

Title:
  copy/paste garbage while using mc, due to lack of support of bracketed
  paste mode

Status in Terminator:
  New
Status in “vte” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Gnome terminator does not support bracketed paste mode introduced by
  xterm to detect between typed-in text and text that is copy-pasted.

  Due to this, copy-pasting text in terminator adds some garbage
  character before and after pasted text.

  This bug occurs on latest version (from bzr).

  Example:

     my_pasted_text

  becomes

    0~my_paster_text1~

  This occurs when using Terminator along with Midnight Commander.

  This is a well known bug that has been fixed already in Gnome Terminal.
  Apparently the bug has been fixed in VTE, and as a result on Gnome Terminal.
  See references below for details.

  To trigger the bug, see sequence below, copied from referenced bug
  report:

  1) start gnome-terminal
  2) start mc in that terminal
  3) enter the Ctrl-o subshell
  4) maximise the terminal (in terminator, this is same as doing for instance Ctrl-Z to maximize current sub-window)
  5) leave the Ctrl-o subshell (i.e. return to the dir/file list)
  6) copy some text (e.g. some "filename")
  7) return back to the Ctrl-o subshell
  8) paste the text

  
  References:
  - xterm bracketed paste mode 
  http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html#Bracketed%20Paste%20Mode
  - original bug report on Midnight Commander
  http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/3207
  - Bug fix and patch on VTE
  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729533

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