From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 16:07:03 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 AB75A37B401 for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 16:07:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.161.78.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0586643F75 for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 16:07:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oremanj@adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net) Received: (qmail 1750 invoked by uid 1001); 8 May 2003 23:07:40 -0000 Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 16:07:40 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman To: How Can ThisBe Message-ID: <20030508230740.GA1683@webserver.get-linux.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 23:07:03 -0000 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! > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Instant Messenger now available on Australian mobile phones.?Go to > http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/hotmail_messenger.asp > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"