On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 08:38:59AM +0200, Rhialto wrote: > > There's also a possible issue with direct selection data transfer > > versus INCR data transfer, but in xterm's case that is unlikely to be > > what's behind your problem. It's hard to be sure; you outline > > conditions under which you see misbehaviour but you don't say what the > > misbehaviour actually is. > > Sorry. What I'm seeing is that I have selected more than 1024 characters > in one xterm, and when I paste it in another, I only get the first 1024 > of those. > > The way I checked the number was to type in one shell the "wc" command, > then paste into that xterm. The output from wc (if needed, forced to end > with one or two ^Ds) tells me its input is only 1024 bytes.
That's a known xterm bug. Christos fixed it in -current quite some time ago; I'm not sure offhand if the fixes made it into -5, but they ought to if they haven't. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
