On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 01:17:50PM +0000, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I've hit an odd problem when pasting large amounts of text into vim > running inside a screen session. > > Steps to reproduce: > > 1. open a new file in vim (e.g. vim /tmp/foo) and enter insert mode > 2. select a large amount of text (a few hundred lines or so) > 3. paste (middle click or ctrl-c/ctrl-v) into the editor > > At this point, Xorg CPU usage shoots up to close to 100%, the desktop > feels very unresponsive and the terminal window that vim is running in > flashes between a blue background with black borders and all-black. > > A few minutes later, some or all of the text will appear (possibly with > some whitespace changes) in the editor and life goes back to normal. I'm > seeing this on two different systems with different graphics drivers > (i945 & nv). > > I cannot reproduce this behaviour outside of screen and I've also > managed to make vim lock up a couple of times while running within > screen on f9 (I don't have exact steps to reproduce this - it seems like > some keystroke sequences trigger it but I can't make it happen at will). > > I'll open a bugzilla for this, but figured I'd post it here in case > anyone's seen something similar. > > Regards, > Bryn. Have you tried pasting into vim running in an xterm session? (Past the text by going into insert and then pressing shift+insert). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
