Re: Slow copy/paste feeding to IDE terminal

[John Swensen]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:01 AM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 26-Sep-2012, John Swensen wrote:
>
> | Does anyone know the root cause of how slow the characters appear when I 
> try to copy/paste into the IDE terminal (or double click on the history)?  
> I've tried to trace the code path that is execute on a copy/paste and can't 
> find anything specific about what might be causing the slow behavior.  I can 
> definitely type in the terminal window as fast as possible with not slow 
> effects, so I think it is isolated to behaviors that feed a string to the 
> terminal.  Another interesting behavior is with a recent patch I submitted.  
> The patch allows the user to select multiple lines in the history, 
> right-click and send them all to the terminal for execution.  The interesting 
> bit is that all but the final line of commands is sent to the terminal and 
> executed immediately, but the final line of the history has the characters 
> appear slowly.
> |
> | John S.
>
> There is a patch for readline here:
>
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2012-06/msg00008.html
>
> jwe


I created a patch with a workaround for the time being. I will leave
it up to the powers that be whether this should be applied while we
wait for the GNU Readline folks to fix it in their repository and then
it gets propagated to all the distros.
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?37450

I personally find it really annoying to have that text appear so slowly.

John S.