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ERC - prevent yanking multiple lines into IRC (feature request) *patch*

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From: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>
To: 43847 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43847: ERC - prevent yanking multiple lines into IRC (feature request) *patch*
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 09:52:53 +0200

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

> Corwin Brust <corwin <at> bru.st> writes:
>
>> I hate it when I accidentally paste multi-line text into ERC.  I
>> *never* actually intend to do this.
>
> I sometimes want to, and sometimes I don't want to.  I think it would be
> pretty surprising for users if we rebind `C-y' in this way.

Seconded.  I think a whitespace-fixing yank command could be useful in
more situations than just ERC; OTOH I'd much rather keep C-y as a
"reliably dumb" yank in all contexts, at least by default.

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