Julia EvansAug 9, 2024

what some problems you've run into in the terminal with copy and paste? so far I have:

- pasting a URL with a `&` (or other character) in it without quotes
- pasting in many commands and one in the middle fails
- accidentally leaving in the '$'
- pasting in something with Fancy Quotes instead of normal quotes
- pasting a bash incantation into fish
- not knowing the keyboard shortcut to paste in a new terminal
- how Linux has two different clipboards

Show threadJohn SiracusaAug 9, 2024
@b0rk Accidentally pasting a ton of data (which includes newlines) at a shell prompt because you thought something else was in the clipboard, then having to figure out what the heck it did and repair the damage! Worst case, if it was, say, HTML or XML and you are unlucky, it may have truncated some existing files via redirection!
Show threadNate Vack 🍴
@siracusa @b0rk welp I have never had this fear until right now
Aug 9, 2024 at 2:58pmWeb