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Increasing Console "Paste Buffer"

2 messages · Manuel Morales, Gavin Simpson

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Hello list.

I'm using R from the gnome-terminal in Fedora. My preference is to write
programs in VIM, and then source the file from R, or copy and paste the
lines into the console. I'm wondering if there is a way to increase the
"paste buffer" as an alternative to "sourcing" large analyses. As was
mentioned in a recent thread on Linux GUI's, I find that if I paste in a
large amount of text, the lines end up getting cut off at some point. I
wonder if this is an R restriction, because it seems like I am able to
paste substantially more text in other console-based programs. Is there
any way to increase the amount of text that I can paste into an R
session?

Thanks!

Manuel
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Manuel Morales wrote:
Manuel,

Maybe I misunderstand what you mean by "lines end up getting cut off at 
some point" so correct me if I got it wrong, but I assume you mean that 
after a certain number of lines entered you can no longer scroll back up 
and view the earlier lines?

If this is the case, then, and again I assume you are using Gnome 
(default in FC) as the desktop system, then open a terminal. The  Edit > 
Current Profile in the menu bar for the terminal. Select the Scrolling 
Tab. Alter Scrollback lines and kilobytes accordingly to suit. You only 
need to do one, not both - I find it easier to think  in numbers of 
lines so I changed that. You'll have to modify this if you use KDE or 
another window manager with FC3.

HTH

Gavin