Yeah, Mac iterm2 seems to have an option in Edit > Paste Special > Paste Slowly, maybe I'll try that. Weird it worked the other day without doing this. Meanwhile, I can't really tell which } it doesn't like, so I've identified and isolated the code blocks I want to updated in a separate window, and will just try to manually change them when I get onsite to the unit I'm testing.
I have a shelf spare unit on my test bench where I test code, then go to the production site and try to upload/commit code. When the upload/commit option on the GUI fails, I drop to the terminal to try to make it work. I figured some kind of encoding was causing problems in translation.
Is there some online way to test candidate configs to check for errors before pushing to a real box?