On 2018-08-25 01:30, Lee wrote: > In retrospect, I should have created the file some other way, but still.. > - grab the top 1M hosts from from > http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/umbrella-static/index.html > - open w/ libreoffice > - select the host name column, right click & select copy (all 1 million lines) > - (mintty 2.9.0 window already open) vi /tmp/hosts > - i (get into insert mode) > - right click (which I have set to "paste") > > data is still scrolling by & it's not even up to 100K lines yet :( > > Is there some way to make a paste operation faster in mintty (or vim > or whatever the slowpoke is)?
There's a utility called getclip which put the clipboard onto stdout. Direct that into a file and you should get the same result, excluding Vim's indentation. Probably doesn't use the tty in anyway. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
