From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 08:38:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D95E37B401 for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 08:38:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pd2mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D330943FA3 for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 08:38:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpressey@catseye.mb.ca) Received: from pd6mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd6mr3so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.218]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HEK00KFPRCON7@l-daemon> for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 08 May 2003 09:36:24 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml5so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml5so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.149]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HEK00BJ5RCOP5@l-daemon> for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 08 May 2003 09:36:24 -0600 (MDT) Received: from www.kallisti.ca (h24-70-180-74.wp.shawcable.net [24.70.180.74]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with SMTP id <0HEK00JIMRCNAU@l-daemon> for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 08 May 2003 09:36:24 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 10:36:57 -0500 From: Chris Pressey In-reply-to: To: How Can ThisBe Message-id: <20030508103657.5e380e6f.cpressey@catseye.mb.ca> Organization: Cat's Eye Technologies MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: clipboard limits with copu and paste? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 15:38:19 -0000 On Thu, 08 May 2003 10:11:52 +0000 "How Can ThisBe" wrote: > HI, I'm using vim (without the GUI) and trying to paste a large > sections of text from another application (source view of a HTML page > in mozilla). However I only seem to be able to paste in 'chunks'. It > appears that there is something like a copy size limit. I was > wondering if this buffersize can be set somewhere. I have search vim, > XFree, FreeBSD and google for last few hours trying to find a answer. > I'm guessing I maybe searching for the wrong terms or something so a > simple 'look for XYZ' answer is possible all I need. > > Thanks! Hi, This isn't really an answer to your question, but you could try saving the file from Mozilla and opening it in Vim, instead of copying and pasting. -Chris