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[magiko]

The example i'm going to use is absurd, but it's super easy to recrete the problem with. I really do have a legit reason that blows up in an identical fashion. I cannot tonight speak to causes, only symptoms.

a pattern works best to see the symptom, and a good pattern is the alphabet.

How to recreate:

Create an alias (mine was called 'neon'), that does:
#alias {neon}
{
#showme <alphabet><alphabet><alphabet>;
a total of 16 times
(where <alphabet> is all 26 characters - so 3x16 alphabets).
}

On my version (1.95.6, Mac OS X precompiled binary)
It skips characters. What's more interesting is that if i redo the alias, the skipped characters either move, or I see something like

#ERROR: #UNKNOWN TINTIN-COMMAND 'shome'.

because the character that it skipped happened to be in the showme command.

The legit use is less data than this, but I really wanted to present the problem. I code, but didn't really want to wade into the source very far if someone else was going to see the problem from 20,000 ft.

[magiko]

I now think this is a problem with pasting into Apple's terminal app. I can paste my alias just fine into anything else, but terminal skips chars on large pastes.

If I find out more I'll let you know. Sorry for the false alarm, i'll edit my #write file directly for my current use.

j

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