paste - Why is pasting a long one-liner very slow in Vim's insert mode? -

My MacBook was stuck yesterday, when I tried to paste 80 characters of 1200 lines for VIM, download the file Too fast, and not to paste the text.

I thought this problem could be a cause, why allow slow uploads compared to downloading internet operators.

If you paste it in a terminal window, it is assumed that by typing it manually , And this will attempt to update and update as you go. You can use your codeboard (on OS X) using the pbpaste and pbcopy commands, so that you can do it in the video:

 : Read! Pbpaste  

Or in a shell:

  bash $ pbpaste | Vim -  

If you were using a GUI vim, you would use the "* register to paste (this is what the context menu does

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