Paste into Window micro misformats the pasted values

[DavidMcGaha]

Description of the problem or steps to reproduce

On Windows, using Windows Terminal in Powershell, pasted lines are mis-formatted compared to format when copied or when pasted into other apps including WSL/Linux micro

Specifications

Commit hash:
OS: Windows
Terminal: Windows Terminal/Powershell

Version: 2.0.14
Commit hash: 04c5770
Compiled on August 27, 2024

[JoeKar]

Looks like it misses the carriage return ( resp. \r).
Maybe it has something to do with #3303, but I'm unsure here.

[fbd-ss]

Can confirm, copy paste has been an issue for a long time. Maybe a bit more testing before release

[JoeKar]

Can confirm, copy paste has been an issue for a long time. Maybe a bit more testing before release

None of the maintainer has Windows as primary OS.
Especially the Windows variant still has some real major issues.
We try to sort them out, but this is nothing we can solve in short term due to limited free time for maintenance.

Issues which seem to be related with this "staircase" effect are:

• Pasting causes text to seemingly cascade to the right #1343
• Windows terminal: Copying data (with click or ctrl-c/ctrl-shift-c) pastes as a single string in other output. #1926
• copy/paste got step shape result #2396

There are more, but I'm unsure if they really describe the same situation.

What makes me wonder a bit about this situation is, that the issue seems to exist a very long time already, but no Windows user took the time to take a deep dive into micro's code to help and support?
It is easy to complain, but hard to offer its own free time.

There is definitely some help wanted.

Things to check/reproduce:

• Does the same behavior take place in case autoindent and/or smartpaste is disabled?
• Which behavior takes place in case the setting is changed as mentioned in copy/paste newline issue in WSL/Windows Terminal #2388...everything as one-line?

[Neko-Box-Coder]

I don't remember this happening to me when using Windows, I have "keepautoindent": true, and "smartpaste": false,

[niten94]

I think I was able to know why formatting changes, but I do not know a good way to fix it.

The indentation probably changes because autoindent is enabled and text is pasted using key press events. Bracketed paste is not enabled on Windows in the fork and upstream of Tcell, and Ctrl-v is handled by default in Windows Terminal settings.

Bracketed paste seems to be supported on Windows Terminal, but there may be other environments or terminal emulators where the control sequence is displayed because it isn't supported.

There are a lot of issues and questions about using the clipboard, so I think > help copypaste could be rewritten to be able to read easily like other help topics. A link in README.md also needs to be added.

[fbd-ss]

I never noticed before, but when on a local network, the crazy indent doesn't happen. But when over tailscale, 90% of the time it will do it.

[niten94]

What is the OS of the machine on the local network and machine accessed using Tailscale where you used Micro, and terminal emulator (like Windows Terminal) you used when accessing both?

In summary, my previous comment was about paste input not distinguished with regular key input, because bracketed paste is not enabled in the Windows version of Micro.

Micro also uses the method that is set in clipboard option to paste if it receives Ctrl-v by default, but Ctrl-v is binded in default Windows Terminal settings so Micro receives pasted content instead. I just noticed that setting clipboard to terminal isn't currently supported on Windows too.

Edit: I'm sorry that my tone wasn't somewhat good. I wasn't in a good mood a bit but I should have not posted at such times. I have tried to rewrite both comments. These can also be done as a workaround on Windows for now:

• temporarily enabling paste option when pasting (> set paste on|off)
• using Paste action in micro
  • local session or remote GUI access: setting clipboard option to external
  • Micro on non-Windows platforms (like ssh, probably WSL too): setting clipboard to terminal
  • Windows Terminal
    • binding keys like Alt-v with Paste in micro (bindings.json or > bind Alt-v Paste)
    • removing Ctrl-v binding in Windows Terminal settings