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What I find super irritating is that some terminals will automatically execute a command if you paste it from the clipboard and there is a newline char at the end. IMO command line interfaces should not do this.

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    bind 'set enable-bracketed-paste on'

Put in .inputrc which I believe is portable to readline shells:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Readline#Bracketed_paste

Wouldn’t surprise me if that’s the article where I got it from. :)

On macOS, iTerm asks if you try to paste a string with a newline. You can disable it if you find it annoying.

Fish shell by default does the expected behaviour of inserting in and allowing you to edit the command (multiline if needed) before executing it with [enter]. I've found Fish shell to have a lot of sane defaults and have yet to find a thing I would like to customize except for the prompt.

And the best way to customise the prompt is to install https://starship.rs =)

You might try a clipboard manager. Most of these that I've used have an option to strip new lines from anything in the clipboard.

that would break multi-line commands, so not a good option

It just strips off the final one.

If i know there will be at most one newline, i start by typing "# ", then paste. If the newline gets interpreted, then the whole line is just a comment anyway. It's then easy to edit the # off the start of the line before running it for real.

You want to use C-x C-e.

You find it irritating that terminals execute commands when they receive a newline, which is indistinguishable from pressing the enter key? The program is doing exactly as it should. Consider not copying newline characters, and you will solve the problem.

Bracketed paste has been a thing for twenty years now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracketed-paste

Put in .inputrc:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Readline#Bracketed_paste

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