GNU bug report logs - #5321
Interaction problem between Emacs and terminal paste functions

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: James Mills <jameswmills <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 19:53:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 6571

Found in version 23.2

Fixed in versions 24.1, 23.3

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 5321 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: James Mills <jameswmills <at> gmail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 5321 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5321: - Interaction problem between Emacs and terminal paste
	functions
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:23:35 -0500

> Apparently the pty buffer of your system has a size of 4096 bytes.  If
> the terminal keeps stuffing more bytes into the master side of the pty
> that buffer overflows and bytes are dropped until the process at the
> other side of the pty had a chance to read some.  This is unlikely to be
> fixable inside Emacs.

Andreas,

If this were the case, then why would other editors on the same
systems in the same terminal emulators not exhibit this behavior?  All
other tested editors (vi, vim, nano, etc) pasted the entire buffer.

Thanks!
~james
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