Sometimes when I copy+paste into my spacemacs over SSH, I get some random garbage that seems to be due to spacemacs interpreting some of the pasted content as commands. In vim, my workaround is to run r! cat, paste what I want into the cat command, then Ctrl-D to exit. When I run M-x shell-command ENTER cat ENTER, however, I get (shell command succeeded with no output) immediately, and no prompt.
What is the right way to get the equivalent of r! cat from emacs (or spacemacs, in particular)?
cat? I, for one, would appreciate more detail about what is going wrong and how exactly your workaround solves the problem. – NickD Aug 12 at 18:24evil-escape-key-sequence, it leaves insert mode and interprets the rest of the pasted text as normal mode commands. Or if I paste text with unbalanced parens,smartparensinserts some unwanted close parens at the end of the pasted text. – Patrick Collins Aug 12 at 18:29catand delete the key sequence and in the second case you add/delete parens to make it balanced, before you signal EOF tocat? – NickD Aug 12 at 18:36catoutput as keyboard input, so the auto-formatting doesn't fire. – Patrick Collins Aug 13 at 1:10