Re: 2.3.2.1 & copy/paste
Re: 2.3.2.1 & copy/paste
- Subject: Re: 2.3.2.1 & copy/paste
- From: Nathan <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:45:34 -0600
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Nathan <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Marco S Hyman <email@hidden> wrote:
>> On Mar 27, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Nathan wrote:
>>
>>> Now if only Terminal.app wouldn't discard random chunks of text when
>>> you paste large amounts into it, the _entire_ OS X clipboard
>>> experience would be stellar! ;-)
>>
>> Random? I though it just didn't like tab characters.
>> Cut "foo bar" (there is a ^I in there) and paste it
>> into a terminal.
>>
>> // marc
>>
>
> I finally went out and officially filed this one. I thought I had
> filed it a long time ago (weird). Here's the text of my bug. Go
> ahead and try it out yourself. You'll get different results every
> time you paste--that's the "random" part. It looks like it's just
> buffering clipboard data enroute to Terminal.app and discarding any
> data that overflows the buffer if the buffer isn't getting emptied
> quickly enough--but that's just my speculation.
[snip]
Oh, and for those coming in on the middle of the thread, I hasten to
point out that this is strictly a Terminal.app bug -- it doesn't
relate to X11 at all. I just mentioned it because X11 has made such
strides in clipboard improvements that I got jealous... :-)
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