bug#11705: Strangest Emacs Bug I've ever seen

[Stefan Kangas]

tags 11705 + unreproducible
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"Damian Kohlfeld" <damian@kohlfeld.com> writes:
> This is a screen+emacs bug.  For whatever reason, it truncated "kbr" when
> pasting into Emacs.
>
> Been using Emacs Console for years (inside Screen).  I often copy/paste into
> emacs buffer.
>
> If I open emacs editor with:
> Emacs test.pl
>
> Then I paste the following text into the emacs console window:
> eWRvbWFpbjCBnzANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOBjQAwgYkCgYEAyZkbrbuq7a4Z1Ato
>
> Only the following gets pasted:
> eWRvbWFpbjCBnzANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOBjQAwgYkCgYEAyZbuq7a4Z1Ato
>
> I have tested this on emacs in Redhat 9, all the way up to emacs running on
> CentOS 5.6
>
> The same will happen with this text:
> YEAyZkbrbuq7a4Z1Ato
>
> The "kbr" gets truncated.
>
> I've looked for control characters, etc, but have found nothing.  Here is a
> block from Microsoft Notepad:
>
> VQQDEw9Gb3J0LUZ1bnN0b24gQ0ExITAfBgkqhkiG9w0BCQEWEm1lQG15aG9zdC5t
> eWRvbWFpbjCBnzANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOBjQAwgYkCgYEAyZkbrbuq7a4Z1Ato
> iPETp5Ds6OJWwsCGX5LK6FzDj7e8vA298OiXolOME2I9p7LvXtwUfFSCJH+VGWNE
>
> If you paste that into emacs, the middle line is truncated.
>
> I do not even see how this is possible.
>
> Anyway, I thought I would let you know, I've definitely stumbled across
> something very very strange.
>
> Thanks for such an awesome editor, compiler, does-everything-I could ever
> need program,,,
>
> Damian Kohlfeld

I can't reproduce this on Emacs 26.2 nor on current master.

Are you still seeing this bug?  If yes, could you please describe your
environment more precisely -- for example, what terminal emulator are
you using (xterm, rxvt, aterm)?  Can you paste this text line into other
programs running in terminal?  Can you paste it into emacs if you don't
use screen?

Thanks,
Stefan Kangas