From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 26 13:16:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web2.sea.nwserv.com (web2.sea.nwserv.com [216.145.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3797537B724 for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 13:16:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@freeze.org) Received: from localhost (jfreeze@localhost) by web2.sea.nwserv.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA25015; Fri, 26 May 2000 13:16:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@freeze.org) Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 13:16:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Freeze X-Sender: jfreeze@web2.sea.nwserv.com To: Kent Stewart Cc: Christoph Sold , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help: Wierd Terminal Copy Problem In-Reply-To: <392ED8E7.30A887B2@3-cities.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Envelope-To: kstewart@3-cities.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 26 May 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > > I tried this in a directory with around 500 files. The window I > selected was 50 lines long. I started vi and went into the input mode > and pasted. The terminal locked up. In a 3rd terminal, I watched it > and it continued to consume cpu. After a minute of cpu or so, I did a > "kill -9 pid" and the terminal went away. > > I tried Kedit and it pasted just fine. I guess vi has a problem but > Kedit doesn't. I thought I had vim on that system but I didn't. I am opening the target window with the Icon at the bottom of the screen in KDE (Terminal Emulation (kvt)). I tried the following: vi: failed vim: failed gvim: ok I also tried to kill vi and vim after each failure, but the term was still hung. I think it is kvt's problem. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message