On 27 Nov 2002, Erik Moeller wrote: >On Die, 2002-11-26 at 17:29, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: >> On 26 Nov 2002, Erik Moeller wrote: >> >> >Hi, >> > >> >whenever I try to paste large amounts of text (>10000 bytes), e.g. from >> >an editor (irrelevant which one I use) to a browser (also doesn't matter >> >which browser I use), I get big problems. It doesn't matter if I use >> >PRIMARY or CLIPBOARD, the pasted text just doesn't arrive. In Mozilla I >> >just get a long delay and nothing happens, in Konqueror even stranger >> >things happen, such as random characters appearing in the paste area. I >> >also get the "random characters" effect in Opera after some testing. The >> >only thing that tends to work well is pasting within the same >> >application. Some applications even lose their clipboard contents when >> >closed. > >> What distribution and version are you using? I know there are strange >> artifacts with Red Hat 8.0 where "emdash" and accented characters like >> the French accent acute will prevent proper cut-n-paste. > >Happens both in Debian Woody and SuSE 7-8.0. Normal clipboard operations >work, just large text causes lots of problems. I would be very surprised >if the same operations that don't work on my system (e.g. copying 10000 >bytes from gvim to Mozilla) work on yours. You're going to have to specify what you mean by "copying to Mozilla" means. Do you mean pasting into a cgi-bin based form? If so, then that's likely where your problem lies. I can confirm that pasting 13K of text _from_ Mozilla _to_ vim works fine for me. This was using only the standard alphanumeric characters. As soon as quotes and single-quotes were used then the pasting no longer worked. Similarly emdashes. Oisin Feeley _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
