Re: Pasting a line end doesn't work anymore

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 06/30/2015 03:10 AM, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 11:32:18 +0200
> Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > after the last upgrade (GIT 27.06.2015) the following doesn't work anymore.
> >
> > If I paste some lines (including end-of-line) into an xterm the commands aren't executed unless
> > I enter <ENTER> on my keyboard in addition.
I've long since given up being astonished at how some things work, but 
am I to take from this that there is/was a time when you'd paste a line 
of text (with the end of line there by virtue of it being a line of 
text) into an xterm and it would execute?  And this would be considered 
proper?

> >
> It is --- pasted text is treated just as text, not editor commands.
>
> However, I was thinking it needed something in README to explain what's
> going on and point at the controls.
>
> pws