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I recently moved back from using mostly mac to using mostly linux. When I want to paste something, I usually press Ctrl + V, and seeing it fail makes me realize, that I meant to press Ctrl + Shift + V and press those buttons as well. However, this results some extra characters placed both at the beginning and at the end of the command, meaning that I have to actively search back and delete the inserted crap.

For example, inserting https://superuser.com/questions/ask produces:

^[[200~https://superuser.com/questions/ask~

I learned that Ctrl + V performs something called "verbatim insert", a functionality, that I have never ever used during my many years of using a terminal. Is there a way of disabling this functionality altogether? It would be nice to have Ctrl + V rebound to paste, but having it just not insert weird content all over the place would great.

I am using Konsole (18.04.0), zsh (5.7.1), but all other terminal applications I tested behaved identically.

Adam Hunyadi
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