diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 04ed78f5..9e3c349b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ roughly in decreasing order of importance.
   - (enhancement) Reject invalid UTF-8 input from documents and
     terminals.
 * Changes in terminal support
-  - (new feature) Support for pasting from GNU screen clipboard
   - (enhancement) Make ELinks FreeBSD friendly. Defined keys used on
     FreeBSD console
   - (enhancement) Mouse wheel support on BSD via moused -z 4
@@ -72,7 +71,7 @@ roughly in decreasing order of importance.
   - (enhancement 887) Save in cookie manager should save cookies even
     if unmodified.
 * Changes in the user interface
-  - (new feature) Internal clipboard support
+  - (new feature 145) Internal clipboard support
   - (enhancement) Place the cursor on the current listbox item, to
     help screen readers
   - (enhancement) Localization updates
@@ -270,6 +269,7 @@ have already been considered.
   - (new feature) Let plain text change colors with ESC [ 31 m or
     similar control sequences, reverted in
     2a6125e3d0407b588eb286d4d0ff5c98c23ebda9
+  - (enhancement) Support for pasting from GNU screen clipboard
 * Unimportant changes: 
   - (enhancement) If select fails, save its errno.
 
diff --git a/src/osdep/osdep.c b/src/osdep/osdep.c
index ea36824a..d7705bed 100644
--- a/src/osdep/osdep.c
+++ b/src/osdep/osdep.c
@@ -349,6 +349,26 @@ static unsigned char *clipboard;
 unsigned char *
 get_clipboard_text(void)
 {
+	/* The following support for GNU Screen's clipboard is
+	 * disabled for two reasons:
+	 *
+	 * 1. It does not actually return the string from that
+	 *    clipboard, but rather causes the clipboard contents to
+	 *    appear in stdin.	get_clipboard_text is normally called
+	 *    because the user pressed a Paste key in an input field,
+	 *    so the characters end up being inserted in that field;
+	 *    but if there are newlines in the clipboard, then the
+	 *    field may lose focus, in which case the remaining
+	 *    characters may trigger arbitrary actions in ELinks.
+	 *
+	 * 2. It pastes from both GNU Screen's clipboard and the ELinks
+	 *    internal clipboard.  Because set_clipboard_text also sets
+	 *    them both, the same text would typically get pasted twice.
+	 *
+	 * Users can instead use the GNU Screen key bindings to run the
+	 * paste command.  This method still suffers from problem 1 but
+	 * any user of GNU Screen should know that already.  */
+#if 0
 	/* GNU Screen's clipboard */
 	if (is_gnuscreen()) {
 		struct string str;
@@ -359,6 +379,7 @@ get_clipboard_text(void)
 		if (str.length) exe(str.source);
 		if (str.source) done_string(&str);
 	}
+#endif
 
 	return stracpy(empty_string_or_(clipboard));
 }