BEGINQUOTE I also have this irrational expectation that the dude who developed the terminal app should be smart enough to know that (regardless of internal representation on the clipboard) it is worthless to paste a URL into a bash shell. ENDQUOTE
Really? I never want to "wget $pasted-URL" in my BASH shell?
You are being way too dogmatic about your specific, narrow use case being the only one that needs to be supported.
Re: mac developer working with linux
I also have this irrational expectation that the dude who developed the terminal app should be smart enough to know that (regardless of internal representation on the clipboard) it is worthless to paste a URL into a bash shell.
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Really? I never want to "wget $pasted-URL" in my BASH shell?
You are being way too dogmatic about your specific, narrow use case being the only one that needs to be supported.