Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 16:07:40 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org> To: How Can ThisBe <howcanthisbe300@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: clipboard limits with copu and paste? Message-ID: <20030508230740.GA1683@webserver.get-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY7-F119uagPwCLjit000062a9@hotmail.com> References: <BAY7-F119uagPwCLjit000062a9@hotmail.com>
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On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 10:11:52AM +0000 or thereabouts, How Can ThisBe seemed to write:
> 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.
I ran into this too. It's a known bug (feature?) described in sc(4):
...
CAVEATS
The Amount of data that is possible to insert from the cut buffer is lim-
ited by the {MAX_INPUT}, a system limit on the number of bytes that may
be stored in the terminal input queue - usually 1024 bytes (see
termios(4)).
HTH,
-- Josh
>
> Thanks!
>
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