You can't paste enter into a Linux terminal
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/10/you-cant-paste-enter-into-a-linux-terminal/

I love my Linux laptop. But, once in a while, it forgets it has a keyboard. I wake it from a little nap and it's all like "no, sir! no keyboards here! just use a mouse please!"

Logging in is pretty simple. Pop_OS has an on-screen keyboard which lets me hunt-n-peck P4ssW0rd123! into the box.


But then I'm stuck. I can launch apps - but I can't type into them.

The on-screen keyboard only seems to work on certain OS elements. It didn't pop up for the Terminal app.

I could have plugged in a USB keyboard. Or even a Yubikey. But where's the fun in that? Similarly, I could have rebooted and manually changed Bash's behaviour. Or done some weird config which turns a middle click into an enter. Or SSH'd in from another machine. But I like a challenge!

So I opened up my browser, clicked to a news story, and then laboriously copied and pasted the letters l s u s b into the terminal. That would show me if my keyboard was stolen by goblins.

But how to run the command? I found a newline on the web page and c&p'd that.



Nothing.

And that's how I learned that most modern terminals don't let you paste in an enter. It becomes a newline to stop you automatically running code you shouldn't. This is the default behaviour on Bash since 5.1.

Anyway, there's a long running bug about this intermittently glitchy keyboard behaviour. In future, I'll just reboot.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/10/you-cant-paste-enter-into-a-linux-terminal/

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