On 2023-01-22 11:33:57 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> This might be a limitation of Linux's pty(7) subsystem.  The xterm
> manpage mentions the following:
> 
> ,----
> | BUGS
> |      Large pastes do not work on some systems.  This is not a bug in
> |      xterm; it is a bug in the pseudo terminal driver of those systems.
> |      Xterm feeds large pastes to the pty only as fast as the pty will
> |      accept data, but some pty drivers do not return enough information
> |      to know if the write has succeeded.
> `----
> 
> See also https://bugs.debian.org/273194 in xterm.  Disclaimer: I do not
> have any expertise in that area.

Thanks. Since several terminals are affected (I've tested xterm,
mlterm and GNOME Terminal), with exactly the same behavior, each
after 4095 characters, this is probably this bug.

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