On Sun 22 Jan 2023 at 15:35:08 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 07:54:39PM +0000, Richmond wrote: > > > 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. > > It doesn't work, presumably for the same reason that Ctrl-C doesn't work. > The xterm's pty's input buffer is full, and it simply ignores all keyboard > input from that point forward. > > (Are people not actually *testing* these things before proposing them?)
Well /I/ certainly do. The only thing that surprises me is that in all the years I've been pasting into an emacs window that's partly overlaying its xterm parent, I've never accidentally pasted into the xterm anything big enough to provoke this problem. I tried pasting largeish text files (275KB) into both emacs and xterm (the latter using cat >filename) and have had no problems. I generated the copies in two ways, either ^A^C in Firefox when displaying the original file, or with xclip original-file, and pasted them with Sh-Insert. All the pasted copies were identical with the original, so I didn't hit bug #273194 mentioned by Sven. Cheers, David.
