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How to stop weird characters being inserted on paste in tmux
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ChrisJohnsen/tmux-MacOSX-pasteboard#31 (comment)

What happens if you paste (in a pane where you see the problem) while running cat -v? Do you see something like ^[[200~hello world^[[201~? If so, what you are seeing is bracketed paste mode.

You should be able to turn the mode off by running printf '\e[?2004l'

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