Paste limited to 50 chars when run in Docker container on Windows #30

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opened 2026-01-30 21:40:04 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @dhirschfeld on GitHub (Dec 14, 2017).

When pasting text into powershell in a Windows container the text is truncated at 50 characters which makes for a very frustrating and unproductive user experience.

This effect is most notable in powershell becaue of an unfortuante interaction with PSReadline however unusual/undersirable behaviour is also observed in a plain cmd terminal leading to (IIUC) the conclusion that the underlying problem is with the console itself.

This issue has been previously opened in 3 separate repositories:

...however I'm opening it here as all those issues have been closed under the assumption that the problem lies with the console itself

Originally created by @dhirschfeld on GitHub (Dec 14, 2017). When pasting text into powershell in a Windows container the text is truncated at 50 characters which makes for a very frustrating and unproductive user experience. This effect is most notable in powershell becaue of an unfortuante interaction with PSReadline however [unusual/undersirable behaviour](https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine/issues/460#issuecomment-345609929) is also observed in a plain `cmd` terminal leading to (IIUC) the conclusion that the underlying problem is with the console itself. This issue has been previously opened in 3 separate repositories: * lzybkr/PSReadLine#460 * moby/moby#27793 * PowerShell/PowerShell#5501 ...however I'm opening it here as all those issues have been closed under the assumption that the problem lies with the console itself
claunia added the Resolution-Fix-AvailableResolution-ExternalNeeds-Tag-Fix labels 2026-01-30 21:40:04 +00:00
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Reference: starred/terminal#30