Package: rxvt-unicode
Version: 9.31-3+b2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

After updating rxvt-unicode from 9.30-2+b4 (bookworm) to 9.31-3+b2 (current testing), pasting multiple lines results in all newlines being replaces by whitespace, so everything is squashed together on one line only.

Steps to reproduce:

* Run 'xrdb -remove' to remove all user-specific configuration
* Start a new terminal instance by running 'urxvt'
* In the new urxvt window, run 'cat' and paste multiple lines, either from the
middle mouse button, or from the clipboard via Ctrl-Alt-V. Urxvt first asks if
I really want to paste control characters (which is expected since the
clipboard contains several \n, which it also shows as '\n' in the preview line
below the prompt). When then pressing 'y', the pasted text is inserted in the
terminal, but all newlines in the pasted text are replaced by whitespace.

As a control, I tried inspecting the clipboard with 'xclip -o', which shows that
the clipboard or mouse selection indeed contains newlines. Pasting the clipboard
or mouse selection in an xterm window also inserts the text with all newlines left intact.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (991, 'testing-debug'), (991, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.22-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages rxvt-unicode depends on:
ii base-passwd 3.6.7
ii libc6 2.41-7
ii libfontconfig1 2.15.0-2.3
ii libgcc-s1 14.2.0-19
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.12+dfsg-2
ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.84.1-2
ii libperl5.40 5.40.1-3
ii libptytty0 2.0-1+b2
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-8
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.12-1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.4-1+b3
ii libxft2 2.3.6-1+b4
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.3-3+b4
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.12-1
ii ncurses-base 6.5+20250216-2
ii ncurses-term 6.5+20250216-2

Versions of packages rxvt-unicode recommends:
ii fonts-dejavu 2.37-8
ii fonts-vlgothic [fonts-japanese-gothic] 20220612-1

Versions of packages rxvt-unicode suggests:
ii sensible-utils 0.0.25

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On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 03:01:51PM +0200, Roland Hieber wrote:

* In the new urxvt window, run 'cat' and paste multiple lines, either from the
middle mouse button, or from the clipboard via Ctrl-Alt-V. Urxvt first asks if
I really want to paste control characters (which is expected since the
clipboard contains several \n, which it also shows as '\n' in the preview line
below the prompt). When then pressing 'y', the pasted text is inserted in the
terminal, but all newlines in the pasted text are replaced by whitespace.

As I just learned, this is expected behaviour, and the paste prompt in v9.31 got
another option, "p", which pastes the clipboard as-is without replacing any control characters by whitespaces. I could not find any documentation for this feature, maybe it is worth an entry in NEWS.debian? Otherwise this bug can be closed.

By the way, when I tried to "debug" this issue, I noticed that the current version tag, debian/9.31-3, is missing in the Salsa Git repo.

Thanks, and sorry for the noise,

- Roland

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