pasting truncates text lines into an emacs buffer

Question

I copied more than 100 lines of text and pasted it into emacs ( 23.1.1 ), but only the first 50 lines or so actually get pasted.

Is there a setting somewhere that I can poke to increase the size?

Answer 1

IIUC when inserting, the number of lines doesn't matter. Emacs inserts just numbers, which represent characters. The character "\\n" is one of them maybe. After insertion, Emacs reads these numbers, ie displays a representation of these numbers as characters.

The only limitation here is the maximal amount of numbers/chars a buffer may hold. With around 80 chars in each 100 lines you are an eternity below. Assume it's just a copy error/mistake.