urxvt-confirm-paste(1)           RXVT-UNICODE           urxvt-confirm-paste(1)


NAME
       confirm-paste - ask for confirmation before pasting control characters

DESCRIPTION
       Displays a confirmation dialog when a paste containing control
       characters is detected. The user can choose "y" to either paste a
       sanitized variant where all control characters are removed, "p" to
       paste the string unmodified or "n" to drop the paste request
       completely.

       This is mostly meant as a defense-in-depth mechanism to protect against
       the common web browser bug of you selecting some text but the browser
       pasting a completely different text, which has some attack potential.

       It can also be useful to prevent you from accidentally pasting large
       amounts of text.

   DETAILS
       If a string containing unicode control characters (specifically U+0000
       ..  U+001F currrently) is pasted into the terminal, this extension will
       ask whether it should be pasted. Strings without control characters get
       pasted without prompt.

       When a sanitized version is pasted (choice "y"), then contiguous
       sequences of those control characters will be replaced by a single
       spaces.

       The exact detection and sanitization algorithm is subject to change in
       future versions.

9.31                              2023-07-30            urxvt-confirm-paste(1)