Re: Console-window Emacs stops responding when pasting clipboard

[Davor Cubranic]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> wrote:

   > Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:30:58 -0800
   > From: Davor Cubranic <cubranic@cs.ubc.ca>
   > 
   > I run Emacs in a Putty terminal window (xterm emulation), and when
   > I paste the contents of certain web pages I copied from Mozilla,
   > Emacs stops responding. For an example, select the entire 11th
   > paragraph in the body of the article at
   > http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1152570,00.html
   > (starting with "It all ran a bit out of control"). Paste it into
   > Emacs (shift-insert in putty). Emacs stops responding until I press
   > C-g.

Someone said on this list that this problem was caused by 8-bit
characters being pasted. Is there any way to tell Emacs to ignore the
high bit? My terminal is configured to send control keys as ESC
combinations anyways, and I have a US-ASCII keyboard.

Davor