This blog entry is directed at those power users or developers who use the Mac’s terminal application. (For the rest of you, terminal is used to execute hand-written commands.) I often find myself pasting text into terminal. Most of the time, this works fine. However, occasionally, it pastes incorrectly, prefixing the pasted text with “00~” and suffixing it with “01~”. It even has the gall to beep at its own bug. By the way, it’s been around for the longest time, perhaps more than a decade. Here‘s an example: