xC: quote text coming from a bracketed paste

Not having this has caused me much annoyance over the years.

1 files changed, 39 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/xC.c b/xC.c
index 3de9f26..a5a8070 100644
--- a/xC.c
+++ b/xC.c
@@ -2445,6 +2445,10 @@ static struct config_schema g_config_behaviour[] =
 	{ .name      = "editor_command",
 	  .comment   = "VIM: \"vim +%Bgo %F\", Emacs: \"emacs -nw +%L:%C %F\"",
 	  .type      = CONFIG_ITEM_STRING },
+	{ .name      = "process_pasted_text",
+	  .comment   = "Normalize newlines and quote the command prefix in pastes",
+	  .type      = CONFIG_ITEM_BOOLEAN,
+	  .default_  = "on" },
 	{ .name      = "date_change_line",
 	  .comment   = "Input to strftime(3) for the date change line",
 	  .type      = CONFIG_ITEM_STRING,
@@ -12624,8 +12628,6 @@ process_input (struct app_context *ctx, char *user_input)
 	else
 	{
 		struct strv lines = strv_make ();
-
-		// XXX: this interprets commands in pasted text
 		cstr_split (input, "\r\n", false, &lines);
 		for (size_t i = 0; i < lines.len; i++)
 			(void) process_input_utf8 (ctx,
@@ -14234,6 +14236,40 @@ done:
 
 #define BRACKETED_PASTE_LIMIT 102400    ///< How much text can be pasted
 
+static bool
+insert_paste (struct app_context *ctx, char *paste, size_t len)
+{
+	if (!get_config_boolean (ctx->config.root, "behaviour.process_pasted_text"))
+		return CALL_ (ctx->input, insert, paste);
+
+	// Without ICRNL, which Editline keeps but Readline doesn't,
+	// the terminal sends newlines as carriage returns (seen on urxvt)
+	for (size_t i = 0; i < len; i++)
+		if (paste[i] == '\r')
+			paste[i] = '\n';
+
+	int position = 0;
+	char *input = CALL_ (ctx->input, get_line, &position);
+	bool quote_first_slash = !position || strchr ("\r\n", input[position - 1]);
+	free (input);
+
+	// Executing commands by accident is much more common than pasting them
+	// intentionally, although the latter may also have security consequences
+	struct str processed = str_make ();
+	str_reserve (&processed, len);
+	for (size_t i = 0; i < len; i++)
+	{
+		if (paste[i] == '/'
+			&& ((!i && quote_first_slash) || (i && paste[i - 1] == '\n')))
+			str_append_c (&processed, paste[i]);
+		str_append_c (&processed, paste[i]);
+	}
+
+	bool success = CALL_ (ctx->input, insert, processed.str);
+	str_free (&processed);
+	return success;
+}
+
 static void
 process_bracketed_paste (const struct pollfd *fd, struct app_context *ctx)
 {
@@ -14258,7 +14294,7 @@ process_bracketed_paste (const struct pollfd *fd, struct app_context *ctx)
 			(int) (text_len = BRACKETED_PASTE_LIMIT));
 
 	buf->str[text_len] = '\0';
-	if (CALL_ (ctx->input, insert, buf->str))
+	if (insert_paste (ctx, buf->str, text_len))
 		goto done;
 
 error: