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Strip or replace tabs when pasting #6134

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mdalacu opened this issue May 22, 2020 · 3 comments
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Strip or replace tabs when pasting #6134

mdalacu opened this issue May 22, 2020 · 3 comments
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Area-TerminalControl Issues pertaining to the terminal control (input, selection, keybindings, mouse interaction, etc.) Help Wanted We encourage anyone to jump in on these. Issue-Task It's a feature request, but it doesn't really need a major design. Product-Terminal The new Windows Terminal.
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mdalacu commented May 22, 2020 •
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Environment

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.18363.836]
Windows Terminal Version: 1.0.1401.0

Any other software?
Google Sheets or any other software that delimits columns in clipboard by TAB character


# Steps to reproduce
Have multiple commands written in google sheets one per row but with parts of it in different cells

# Expected behavior

When you paste in normal cmd window the TAB caracter gets ignored. 

# Actual behavior

When you paste commands containing TAB caracter autocompletition triggers and the command gets corrupted

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mdalacu commented May 22, 2020

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DHowett commented May 25, 2020 •
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So, this is one of those weird problems. This is because the data coming out of Google Sheets has raw tab characters in it. (I know you know that, but I was doing exposition!) A compliant terminal (the traditional console host is not a compliant terminal) must pass that tab character through as-is.

This is, of course, resulting in tab completion as though you had pressed Tab yourself.

Maybe we should have a setting configuring what happens to Tab when you paste it in.

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zadjii-msft commented Apr 5, 2023 •
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Huh #9380

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