Re: 2.3.2.1 & copy/paste
Re: 2.3.2.1 & copy/paste
- Subject: Re: 2.3.2.1 & copy/paste
- From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:16:50 +0200 (CEST)
+ Michael Parson <email@hidden>:
> I've seen this problem for years, under other operating systems, using
> editors other than emacs, terminals other than Mac OS's Terminal.app.
>
> I just figured it was a problem with the buffering of the editor.
Well, emacs certainly does not deal well with large pastes when run in
a terminal (emacs -nw). Even a fairly recent emacs loses text when I
try that in an xterm on freebsd. Interestingly, however, if I run it
under ktrace, I can see that it reads all the data just fine, it just
quits executing it after a while. (Note that to emacs, every keystroke
executes a command. Most keystrokes will execute the command
self-insert-command, which does as the name indicates, but it is still
a command.)
> My work-around was to use the 'cat' command to create the file, then
So long as we're talking about workarounds, here is one for emacs:
If the emacs is running locally, try C-u M-! pbpaste RETURN. Or if it
runs remotely but with an X11 connection available, replace pbpaste by
xsel -p (and if you haven't got xsel, I recommend getting it - I use
it all the time).
- Harald
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