"the message is too large"

[Sulabh Mahajan]

Hit "reply all" so that the list gets your reply.

I agree, discarded message is a pain, since most people won't know about
Ctrl + Up.

We know about Yahoo's 800 char limit, has been set by the
client/server/protocol. Nothing we can do about it, but yeah we should
handle the discarding of message in a better way.

I don't think it is a good idea to split message automatically, might mess
up with the text formatting.

Discarding is good, if we have an "obvious" way to obtain the message back.

You might want to (re-)open a ticket, present your point. Also the topic
might get attention, and you can obtain the views of the developers if you
send it to the devel list (devel at pidgin.im).

Thanks

-- Sulabh

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Richard Jackson <
richard_jackson at attglobal.net> wrote:

> My issue is with pidgin when exchanging messages with the Yahoo IM service.
>
> I just did a quick test using the basic Yahoo interface.  Somewhere around
> 800 characters, the standard product stops accepting new characters -- I can
> type but after about 800 characters, they are not echoed to the input
> control and are not sent to the recipient.
>
> [for the pedantic, the test description = in notepad, create a line of text
> that is about 100 characters long, select the line, ctrl-c, start the
> standard Yahoo application, paste the line one time into the input area,
> click send.  Repeat paste and send while pasting 2 times, 3 times, and so
> forth.  When I paste the line 8 times, a few characters are dropped off the
> end of the last line (my line is not exactly 800 characters long and
> contains a CRLF etc).  When I paste the line 9 times, the last paste does
> not show in the input area at all.]
>
> Thanks for the note about ctrl-up, that will reduce my blood pressure.
>
> As others have done, I would encourage the developers to think about ways
> to deal with this (silly) Yahoo limitation.  Of the ideas that I saw, my
> personal favorite so far is the one that goes, "automatically split the
> typing into acceptable-sized chunks and send several messages".  I like it
> because it makes everyone happy and requires me to do -- nothing.  It could
> be made even more cool by splitting on the last space, comma, semicolon,
> period, slash, or other white space or special character.  Obviously this
> gets more complicated if the user is typing in another character set -- oh
> well.
>
> For those who avoided whacking me on the head about the Yahoo service
> limitation -- thanks.
>
> To whomever maintains the help: use the built in camera and/or microphone
> to capture pictures (still or movies) of users losing their beautiful,
> important and completely obliterated composition and post them on utube
> (possibly without the sound).  Barring that functionality, I would give some
> consideration to adding a note to the help.
>
> Regards ... Richard Jackson
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Sulabh Mahajan <sulabh.dev at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hit Ctrl + Up.
>>
>> Take a look at this discussion:
>> http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/2009-January/002779.html
>>
>> or Take a look at this ticket:
>> http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8651
>>
>> -- Sulabh
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Richard Jackson
> RJA Ltd.
> Email address: richard_jackson at attglobal.net
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> Instant message: opxnv at yahoo.com
>
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