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urxvt-confirm-paste(1) RXVT-UNICODE urxvt-confirm-paste(1) NAME confirm-paste - ask for confirmation before pasting control characters DESCRIPTION Displays a confirmation dialog when a paste containing control characters is detected. The user can choose "y" to either paste a sanitized variant where all control characters are removed, "p" to paste the string unmodi- fied or "n" to drop the paste request completely. This is mostly meant as a defense-in-depth mechanism to protect against the common web browser bug of you selecting some text but the browser pasting a completely different text, which has some attack potential. It can also be useful to prevent you from accidentally pasting large amounts of text. DETAILS If a string containing unicode control characters (specifically U+0000 .. U+001F currrently) is pasted into the terminal, this extension will ask whether it should be pasted. Strings without control characters get pasted without prompt. When a sanitized version is pasted (choice "y"), then contiguous sequences of those control characters will be replaced by a single spaces. The exact detection and sanitization algorithm is subject to change in fu- ture versions. 9.31 2026-08-04 urxvt-confirm-paste(1)
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