A setting for Mac OSX Terminal to pause after paste before executing

Post date: 2020-01-15 16:05:39

Before I updated from 10.12 to 10.14 I made a lot of use of a setting in terminal that I think was enabled with a "defaults write" command, that made it so that pasting (Cmd-V) in Terminal did not immediately execute the contents you pasted in the shell.

I could abort with Ctrl-C if you pasted the wrong thing. If I pasted something enormous it didn't wreak havoc. If I pasted a small multi-line command, I could cursor around to edit a portion before executing. Now I can't find it anywhere in google. Does anyone know how I did that and whether it's still possible in 10.14?

I also used it all the time to paste and look at tabular text, and with option-drag, Terminal was often my go-to lightweight tool for copying a rectangular portion of the selection.

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