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Date:      Fri, 26 May 2000 13:16:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
Cc:        Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help: Wierd Terminal Copy Problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005261310490.7372-100000@web2.sea.nwserv.com>
In-Reply-To: <392ED8E7.30A887B2@3-cities.com>

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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




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