Re: savannah.gnu.org bug tracker unused?

[Linda Walsh]

On 11/28/2013 10:00 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> It's true. I rarely look there.  bug-bash is the preferred conduit for
> bug reports.
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?108163
> >  probably invalid, pasting giant buffers into bash loses characters
> > because of lack of pseudo tty flow control, not bash's fault.
>
> Interestingly enough, a few enterprising people (Margarita Manterola,
> Maximiliano Curia) put significant time into this and discovered a problem
> with tty input queue management in the Linux kernel. The most recent
> message thread is here:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2013-11/msg00005.html
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Depends on the actual bug -- but one instance of this is where bash loses
chars but not, say, 'cat' , -- but both go through the tty code.

In bash, random 'COMPLETION' chars, besides not being taken as 'input',
can also cause a prompt to come up with swallows more input.

Maybe bash needs a "set paste/nopaste" type option (but properly bashicised)
like vim has to resolve a similar problem.