fish-shell · faho · Feb 25, 2017 · Feb 26, 2017 · krader1961 · Feb 26, 2017
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 - The `export` command now supports colon-separated `PATH`, `CDPATH` and `MANPATH`.
 - The `read` command now has a default limit of 10 MiB. If a line is longer than that it will fail with $status set to 122 and the var will be empty. You can set a different limit by setting the FISH_READ_BYTE_LIMIT variable.
 - The \cl binding no longer deletes the scrollback buffer with ncurses >= 6.0 (#2855).
+- fish now supports "bracketed paste". Note that this is more of a security measure, the `fish_clipboard_paste` function (bound to \cv by default) still has a few advantages.
 
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diff --git a/share/functions/__fish_config_interactive.fish b/share/functions/__fish_config_interactive.fish
@@ -232,6 +232,23 @@ function __fish_config_interactive -d "Initializations that should be performed
     # Load key bindings
     __fish_reload_key_bindings
 
+    if not set -q FISH_UNIT_TESTS_RUNNING
+        # Enable bracketed paste before every prompt (see __fish_shared_bindings for the bindings).
+        # Disable it for unit tests so we don't have to add the sequences to bind.expect
+        function __fish_enable_bracketed_paste --on-event fish_prompt
+            printf "\e[?2004h"
+        end
+
+        # Disable BP before every command because that might not support it.
+        function __fish_disable_bracketed_paste --on-event fish_preexec
+            printf "\e[?2004l"
+        end
+
+        # Tell the terminal we support BP. Since we are in __f_c_i, the first fish_prompt
+        # has already fired.
+        __fish_enable_bracketed_paste
+    end
+
     function __fish_winch_handler --on-signal WINCH -d "Repaint screen when window changes size"
         commandline -f repaint
     end

diff --git a/share/functions/__fish_shared_key_bindings.fish b/share/functions/__fish_shared_key_bindings.fish
@@ -105,4 +105,41 @@ function __fish_shared_key_bindings -d "Bindings shared between emacs and vi mod
     # The [meta-e] and [meta-v] keystrokes invoke an external editor on the command buffer.
     bind \ee edit_command_buffer
     bind \ev edit_command_buffer
+
+    # Support for "bracketed paste"
+    # The way it works is that we acknowledge our support by printing
+    # \e\[?2004h
+    # then the terminal will "bracket" every paste in
+    # \e\[200~ and \e\[201~
+    # Every character in between those two will be part of the paste and should not cause a binding to execute (like \n executing commands).
+    #
+    # We enable it after every command and disable it before (in __fish_config_interactive.fish)
+    #
+    # Support for this seems to be ubiquitous - emacs enables it unconditionally (!) since 25.1 (though it only supports it since then,
+    # it seems to be the last term to gain support).
+    # TODO: Should we disable this in older emacsen?
+    #
+    # NOTE: This is more of a "security" measure than a proper feature.
+    # The better way to paste remains the `fish_clipboard_paste` function (bound to \cv by default).
+    # We don't disable highlighting here, so it will be redone after every character (which can be slow),
+    # and it doesn't handle "paste-stop" sequences in the paste (which the terminal needs to strip, but KDE konsole doesn't).
+    #
+    # See http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste. The second case will not be caught in KDE konsole.
+    # Bind the starting sequence in every bind mode, even user-defined ones.
+    # HACK: We introspect `bind` here to list all modes.
+    # Re-running `bind` multiple times per mode is still faster than trying to make the list unique,
+    # even without calling `sort -u` or `uniq`, for the vi-bindings.
+    # TODO: This can be solved better once #3872 is implemented.
+    set -l allmodes default
+    set allmodes $allmodes (bind -a | string match -r -- '-M \w+' | string replace -- '-M ' '')
+    for mode in $allmodes
+        bind -M $mode -m paste \e\[200~ 'set -g __fish_last_bind_mode $fish_bind_mode'
+    end
+    # This sequence ends paste-mode and returns to the previous mode we have saved before.
+    bind -M paste \e\[201~ 'set fish_bind_mode $__fish_last_bind_mode; commandline -f force-repaint'
+    # In paste-mode, everything self-inserts except for the sequence to get out of it
+    bind -M paste "" self-insert
+    # Without this, a \r will overwrite the other text, rendering it invisible - which makes the exercise kinda pointless.
+    # TODO: Test this in windows (\r\n line endings)
+    bind -M paste \r "commandline -i \n"
 end