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 20:38:17 -0600
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Nathan <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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... :-)
>
As a couple users kindly pointed out in private emails, the other
editors in terminal don't exhibit the same problem. Fascinating!
Looks like I'll need to adjust my bug report... Maybe it's
emacs+terminal ... It's not _just_ emacs, because if I run my
custom-compiled emacs in aqua mode, pasting always works fine, but if
I run that same custom-compiled emacs in terminal mode, it has the
same problem as the system's /usr/bin/emacs. Weird.
Also fascinating: it took about 5 seconds to paste the 100,000 lines
to vim, while it took about 3 MINUTES to paste the same into "nano."
(I never liked nano anyway.) In emacs aqua mode the paste had no
noticeable delay. I imagine gvim would be similarly quick.
~ Nathan
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