clipboard limits with copu and paste?

[Joshua Oreman]

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

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