Re: PATCH: highlight pasted text

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 4:50 AM, Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bart wrote:
>> There are a couple of features that might be useful if we could come up
>> with a way to do them.  One would be an indication of whether bracketed
>> paste is supported at all, so that no one is taken by surprise when the
>
> That's not possible as far as I know. If it was possible to detect that,
> we'd be able to make the sending of the start/end strings conditional.
>
>> shell starts executing what they pasted.  Another is some indication of
>> what text was pasted (maybe highlight-color it differently?).
>
> How about the following patch? This adds another special token to
> zle_highlight. So you can do, e.g: zle_highlight+=( paste:bg=87 )
> This applies also for vi put and emacs yank commands.
>
> We were already tracking start/end positions of a paste for the purposes
> of the yank-pop widget. Using those, leads to some further changes:
>
> Text from a bracketed paste is now added to the cutbuffer. As far as
> I can tell, this seems to actually also be what the GUI mode of emacs
> does. Though emacs is perhaps not putting duplicates in. It'd be good if
> some actual emacs users could check that it all makes sense, however.
>
> I had been pondering how to interface bracketed-paste with vi registers,
> anyway. This will now also put the bracketed paste in the numbered
> registers. If you explicitly name a vi register, the pasted text is now
> NOT inserted: it is only assigned to the register. This seems quite
> useful if not the most vim compatible. For a middle-mouse click after
> naming a register, gvim will paste the named register at the position
> under the mouse.

Is there any way to use any of this (the highlighting) if you wrap the
widget to manipulate the text first?

-- 
Mikael Magnusson