X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=igRPgaQDPdtOAuHL YEmUWFouDaIfTlfNXKXQRaNpXEeWyAFr86RaxdW7hNXznQOlb0D9vxHMEdHz0mrP OmskivhRwNfqrioJhppSb8zrvakr8a2HY5Q4WfmlYUGoZ8q+/p6YRJH5QNgCtmk4 g4qCCznI6mya5SV1Cfo58FalrQU= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=R/SPd2l34IMBp/eqS/wOho EIc8I=; b=iLDu/vav8hRVbWOLVoOBuXCiIcJCkIu7dCDv8rHoteybeIdikmLMOE dADJh7tjqudM1cKwaJ8/fePLM22QLw1pBdSOxygqOdBNRsKecHekikzK40hW5okb IPwwmiOZIBHbaUeZ+wE3l6/b18ekadH7RbQl4oHv5zE+PM3IotN+M= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Lee, UD:amazonaws.com, Hx-languages-length:851, speeding X-HELO: mail-ed1-f44.google.com DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=B6pkOIVrYsALIGRdMjxIhoof3T41qDFrNxRVZTUDY4w=; b=mEedJJ5gd528k7+lK8DD/35SLDJklm5b1QRFHyc/aMIUlBiDg1nxR2I5p4mnNj8mDv I48HWKdDU3A9+rNCItB16smjbrxsUcfEGVFv+BgtbrQ20W2aUwi3Zv+uBXjw4d9SoZ+6 GC5ASQKNoICRQ/ix68+DkmvxjKS73clCGFtwVuSBwZbcIXf37X6RliMrRMKrGER9m0m0 D818eEGWtFlqh1R8v3fH70lFtNPcZRUWgKYhyGa7Ulx0KHYaW5voiScCGpyU/xD28KvE SD5rUT86OLr7lz5Ms48oQZ6t2Gz9C576HPm6mfng2wZQGACKBzlyGzML5YduKSGCqF/H N89A== Subject: Re: speeding up a paste operation To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: From: James Darnley Message-ID: <1e37af1d-21fa-9c56-b135-cb9a4375d902@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 01:43:23 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 2018-08-25 01:30, Lee wrote: > In retrospect, I should have created the file some other way, but still.. > - grab the top 1M hosts from from > http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/umbrella-static/index.html > - open w/ libreoffice > - select the host name column, right click & select copy (all 1 million lines) > - (mintty 2.9.0 window already open) vi /tmp/hosts > - i (get into insert mode) > - right click (which I have set to "paste") > > data is still scrolling by & it's not even up to 100K lines yet :( > > Is there some way to make a paste operation faster in mintty (or vim > or whatever the slowpoke is)? There's a utility called getclip which put the clipboard onto stdout. Direct that into a file and you should get the same result, excluding Vim's indentation. Probably doesn't use the tty in anyway. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple