Don't substitute `\n` in char bindings

This broke unintentionally due to routing paste-like input
via paste function.

Fixes #7476.

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 34e764b9..9b3e840b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 - `alacritty migrate` failing with nonexistent imports
 - `Alt` bindings requiring composed key rather than pre-composed one on macOS
 - `Alt + Control` bindings not working on Windows
+- `chars = "\u000A"` action in bindings inserting `\n`
 
 ## 0.13.0
 
diff --git a/alacritty/src/event.rs b/alacritty/src/event.rs
index 3b3d8297..ff08557b 100644
--- a/alacritty/src/event.rs
+++ b/alacritty/src/event.rs
@@ -839,13 +839,23 @@ impl<'a, N: Notify + 'a, T: EventListener> input::ActionContext<T> for ActionCon
         } else {
             self.on_terminal_input_start();
 
-            // In non-bracketed (ie: normal) mode, terminal applications cannot distinguish
-            // pasted data from keystrokes.
-            // In theory, we should construct the keystrokes needed to produce the data we are
-            // pasting... since that's neither practical nor sensible (and probably an impossible
-            // task to solve in a general way), we'll just replace line breaks (windows and unix
-            // style) with a single carriage return (\r, which is what the Enter key produces).
-            self.write_to_pty(text.replace("\r\n", "\r").replace('\n', "\r").into_bytes());
+            let payload = if bracketed {
+                // In non-bracketed (ie: normal) mode, terminal applications cannot distinguish
+                // pasted data from keystrokes.
+                //
+                // In theory, we should construct the keystrokes needed to produce the data we are
+                // pasting... since that's neither practical nor sensible (and probably an
+                // impossible task to solve in a general way), we'll just replace line breaks
+                // (windows and unix style) with a single carriage return (\r, which is what the
+                // Enter key produces).
+                text.replace("\r\n", "\r").replace('\n', "\r").into_bytes()
+            } else {
+                // When we explicitly disable bracketed paste don't manipulate with the input,
+                // so we pass user input as is.
+                text.to_owned().into_bytes()
+            };
+
+            self.write_to_pty(payload);
         }
     }