bracketed paste in conhost

[davidanthoff]

Does the Windows console support bracket paste mode? I wasn't able to find any information about that.

[DHowett-MSFT]

Funny you should ask! I've been working on this one myself, as I'd love to see it land.
I'll mark this one with our backlog/tracking tags.

[vapier]

one suggestion to keep in mind (as I've seen more than one implementation forget this edge case): make sure to filter out control sequences when pasting. otherwise the buffer could embed the end sequence thus defeating the point of it.

if you want to be compatible with xterm (who invented this feature), you want to filter:
\x00-\x07
\x0b-\x0c
\x0e-\x1f

[oising]

@DHowett-MSFT -- worth ingesting this page here concerning the security issues various implementations of bracketed paste mode may have: https://lwn.net/Articles/749992/ -- particularly http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste

[miniksa]

@oising, thank you for that read. I think the best thing we could do is write tests for the specific security issues listed there and attempt to mitigate them as we implement the bracketed paste mode.