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The real bug is that \n pasted in to the terminal counts as hitting enter. iTerm has fixed this but every linux terminal I have used has this issue.



Every Linux terminal I've used has a pop-up when there's a new newline. Like this, which in this case is xfce4-terminal. [0]

[0] https://i.imgur.com/ubCXASQ.png



Gnome-terminal, probably the largest by user base, does not sadly.


Huh, I've never gotten a prompt like that in Terminator.


Is it still possible to paste into vim, for example? If so, how does the terminal make the distinction?




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