Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The following issue is reproducible in several terminals, e.g. xterm > and GNOME Terminal, and several shells, e.g. bash and zsh. > > 1. From the shell in an X terminal emulator, run an X application > in foreground, e.g. emacs-gtk or xterm. > > 2. Paste a long text (e.g. the contents of /usr/share/doc/libc6/copyright > to choose an example every one has) in the terminal. Actually, only > the beginning of the text appears in the terminal. > > 3. Type Ctrl-C (one or several times) in the terminal. > But nothing happens. You could try pressing ctrl-z at this point to send the application into background.
fg would bring it into foreground again. I am not going to send that document into a terminal. It has asterisks in it, what would happen if there were a line break and the next characters were rm * ?
