On 8/25/18, wrote: > Am 25.08.2018 um 02:10 schrieb Lee: >> On 8/24/18, James Darnley wrote: >>> 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. >> >> Is getclip different from >> cat > /tmp/hosts >> <right-click to paste in the 1M lines> > > Of course it is,
Are there cygwin man pages or package descriptions somewhere? I did a search on "getclip site:cygwin.com" and didn't see anything that looked like a description. > it goes through the terminal and the pty. Both are > shortcut if you copy from /dev/clipboard, using either cat or cp. ok... searched for 'cygwin getclip' and found https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1322594/cygwin-command-to-copy-to-windows-clipboard The advantage of getclip/putclip over /dev/clipboard is that the former have options to convert between unix and dos line endings. so I do need to take a look at getclip :) Thanks Lee -- 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