Re: copying to clipboard silently discards lines

[Jason Rumney]

"Chong Yidong" <address@hidden> writes:

> I have not tested this on GNU/Linux, but the Windows build silently
> discards some of the text copied onto the clipboard when there are too
> many lines. I think this problem first appeared a couple weeks ago. To
> reproduce:

I cannot reproduce this now. Is it fixed, or should I investigate
more?

> 1. emacs -Q
> 2. Type the following into the *scratch* buffer:
>
> (dotimes (i 1000)
>   (insert (number-to-string i))
>   (newline))
>
> 3. C-j
> 4. C-SPACE
> 5. C-x <
> 6. M-w      (on Windows, this copies the text to the clipboard too)
> 7. Paste the clipboard contents into another program, such as another
>    instance of Emacs. You will see
>
> ...
> 824
> 825
>
> The last hundred lines have silently disappeared.
>