GNU bug report logs - #22080
24.5; Prevent ERC accidental paste by default?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Josuah Demangeon <josuah.demangeon <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 04:35:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 24.5

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 22080 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Josuah Demangeon <josuah.demangeon <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22080 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22080: 24.5; Prevent ERC accidental paste by default?
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 08:47:13 +0100

Josuah Demangeon <josuah.demangeon <at> gmail.com> writes:

> This indicate that erc-accidental-paste-threshold-seconds is nil by
> default.  A common beginner mistake is to accidentaly paste text into
> ERC.  Setting this variable may prevent many of these mistakes (Like I
> did, reason of this report).
>
> Whatever you choose, I'm grateful for your attention.

I think it's not uncommon to paste a couple of lines in at once, so I
think defaulting to anything but zero here would be a disservice.

What we want to avoid is flooding channels, and `erc-flood-protect'
defaults to t, so I think we're covered.

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