[Tfug] cut and paste limits

[Brian Masur]

Like you said, edit/select all (control+A) works better.  Try clicking at 
the beginning of your selection, then holding in shift while clicking at the 
end of  your selection.  Also, try clicking at the beginning of your 
selection then holding down shift while using the cursor keys to set your 
selection.  Good luck!

>From: "t takahashi" <gambarimasu at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
>To: tfug at tfug.org
>Subject: [Tfug] cut and paste limits
>Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 15:34:38 -0700
>
>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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