[ILUG] can only paste 4096 bytes to shell

[Baruch Even]

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 19:23, P at draigBrady.com wrote:
> I'm not sure it's to do with the X program (terminal)
> as I'm using gnome terminal and the same thing happens in xterm.
> Also vim within either terminal will get all input,
> but bash/tcsh within either terminal will loose input.
> Note for me sometimes input is lost in the middle
> of the echos and not just the end, so changing
> the above from 500 -> 5000 should help trigger.

For me it works no matter the size, however when I use gnome-terminal or
xterm, it doesn't work. It's likely they do not implement the X protocol
appropriately, though I admit it is strange, xterm is developed by the
X11 folks and gnome-terminal uses gtk which is likely to handle it
correctly.

If vim in the terminal works correctly than it is very likely a problem
of the terminal program, since vim will handle the paste itself when it
is run in the terminal.

I'm sorry I do not have a better answer.

Baruch