Mate Terminal copy and paste

[James B. Byrne]

Given that I have two sessions opened using mate-terminal.  When I
copy text from one and attempt to paste that text into vi running in
the other then the text block is truncated.  For example:

Copying this text block:

--->
FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p9 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Apr 11 08:48:40 UTC 2017

!!Warning!! -	Any deliberate attempt to access this resource without
                legitimate authorization is a criminal offence
                (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46 - Section 342.1).



FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p11 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Oct 24 18:49:24 UTC 2016

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Edit /etc/motd to change this login announcement.

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and then pasting it into a new file opened with the vi editor in the
other session yields this:

--->
FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p9 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Apr 11 08:48:40 UTC 2017

!!Warning!! -   Any deliberate attempt to access this resource without
                legitimate authorization is a criminal offence
                (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46 - Section 342.1).



FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p11 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Oct 24 18:49:24 UTC
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Is there any way of dealing with this?  If I paste the exact same
block into Pluma then I get the entire thing.

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