Beta: Pasting text into REPL is not consistent

[microbit-mark]

micro:bit support #24686

When attempting to copy/paste text into the REPL, eg a code snippet, the copied text is often incorrectly represented in the editor eg copying 'microbit program' results in 'ram ram ram' etc

This isn't always the case and often the second or third attempt gets it right.

OSX Catalina
Chrome 77

Maybe related to #253

[microbit-sam]

I'll see if upgrading hterm helps
chromium/hterm@5c9c211

[microbit-mark]

Feedback from the user was that

• using ctrl+shift+v does paste correctly and also
• there seems to be a character limit, for example this line would work :
  tune = ["C4:4", "D4:4", "E4:4", "C4:4", "C4:4", "D4:4", "E4:4"
  adding any new character for this example the " ] " at the end , then paste would not work.
  chopping it up in 62 characters in every paste seems to work.

[microbit-sam]

chopping it up in 62 characters in every paste seems to work.

Ah cool, this is probably a limitation of DAPjs/WebUSB then. Max packet size is 64 bytes, so 62 chars + header info is probably the limit

I'll see what I can do to split and the queue the packets, as I think I'll need to do something similar to solve the 131->132 errors