[Tfug] cut and paste limits

[t takahashi]

when i cut and paste large chunks of text, it sometimes gets truncated.

is there any way to turn on error reporting so that if i exceed
whatever arbitrary limit, i'll know about it without having to check
manually?

most recently it happened with firefox, whether i used drag and middle
click or edit->copy.  however, for some reason using edit->select all
and copy seemed to work.  i don't know if i hit a firefox limit or an
x limit.  i'm pretty sure it wasn't a paste limit this time, since i
used cat>file in bash in konsole in both cases.  it's possible that
firefox had its own logic re tables and frames that got in the way,
but i was fairly careful.

i like it when software is designed to have as few arbitrary limits as
possible, and when there are any, they don't let you exceed them, or
warn you.  i am aware that not everybody cares about that as much as i
do.

the applications i use to cut and paste from and into are firefox,
emacs, and (until i find a better xterm) konsole.  sometimes i use
drag and middle click; other times i use edit->copy or edit-paste.

i don't know if i am hitting application limits or x cut buffer or
selection limits.  or maybe even library limits like qt or whatever.

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