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Re:What happens when you press a key in your terminal? by noncoml on Thursday July 21, 2022 @03:01AM (#32176588)
2004h -> “Turn on bracketed paste mode”

2004l -> “Turn off bracketed paste mode”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#CSIsection

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Re:What happens when you press a key in your terminal? by durazabu on Thursday July 21, 2022 @03:15AM (#32176656)
Same mechanism that we could use to disambiguate keys like ^H and backspace.

http://www.leonerd.org.uk/hacks/fixterms/

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Re:What happens when you press a key in your terminal? by aumerle on Thursday July 21, 2022 @06:26AM (#32177652)
That is obsolete and wrong in many ways: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/keyboard-protocol/#bugs-in-f...
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Re:What happens when you press a key in your terminal? by kps on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:27AM (#32179817)
Not to mention that it was NIH after xterm already had such a mode.
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Re:What happens when you press a key in your terminal? by durazabu on Thursday July 21, 2022 @01:32PM (#32182261)
Fascinating, thank you for informing me.
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