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Maybe they do and maybe they don't, but I am certainly expected to deal with whatever the results might be if I paste something into a terminal.

I know there exist terminals and shells that do try to be "helpful" and do auto-escape pastes, but that just breaks things that must not be modified, when the only reason you're pasting is because you need it to be an exact copy without any risk of human typos.

Some are less invasive and just warn when there are included \n before proceeding, but do not presume to munge the data.



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