Can't call sendText API or paste into terminal with long text

[fabiospampinato]

• VSCode Version: Code 1.18.0
• OS Version: Darwin x64 17.3.0

I just found out that I can't call terminal.sendText with a text as long as the following one, because it gets cropped:

echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo" && echo "foo"

I found out about this issue because I'm coding a little function that given N paths it opens them in a new VSC window as an unnamed workspace, and for doing so it's building a command that looks like this: code path1 && code --add path2 && (...) code --add pathN.

I can't even split this particular command into smaller ones because of #38138.

Why is there even this limitation?

[Tyriar]

How long does the path get before it starts to truncate? Is there a pattern to it?

[fabiospampinato]

The only pattern I can see is that the text gets cropped after 1018 characters, but only if that's the very first text being sent to the terminal, otherwise it works fine.

[Tyriar]

Also happens with pasting apparently #63613