At about 1600 lines, about 100 chars per line, typing more neither shows up in the buffer nor calls the
ON_CONTROL( EN_CHANGE, IDC_PATCH, OnUpdate )
callback.
If I paste into the buffer, only enough characters to come up to this limit are being pasted. For instance if there is room for 10 characters, and you paste a 30-character phrase, only 10 characters are actually inserted.
Both cases occur whether the added characters are at the end or not.
This happens to be a 64-bit Visual Studio C++ 2017 app running on Windows 10 Pro.