diff --git a/pd/nw/todo.txt b/pd/nw/todo.txt
index 96dfb98b1c37127cd34a2959079367c3865b0d9a..0612ec4c300997a07986f3c0000155faa516856a 100644
--- a/pd/nw/todo.txt
+++ b/pd/nw/todo.txt
@@ -291,6 +291,21 @@ Everything else: (A [x] means we've fixed it)
 [ ] Figure out what pdtk_ping does
 [ ] Instead of hardcoded gui_post colors, set a class (warning, error, etc.)
 [x] make pdsend able to take an arbitrary number of arguments
+[ ] revisit the function for escaping double-quotes inside s_inter.c, see
+    if there's a cleaner way to do it
+[ ] the socket reader has a buffer capped at 4096. This is plenty for most
+    purposes, but it may choke if the user tries to enter a humongous amount
+    of text inside, say, a message box.  Pd Vanilla handles this by sending
+    every single character that's typed into the box as a separate message
+    (which of course causes other problems, like copy/paste potentially flood-
+    ing the socket and freezing Pd.) Here, I am sending as a single message
+    "stringforobj" with the msg/obj box contents as the arguments. If that
+    message ends up being bigger than 4096 Pd will truncate the message.
+
+    A solution would be to send the box contents in smaller chunks-- bigger
+    than single chars but smaller than 4096. This will complicate the
+    interface, but the chunks should get sent in sequence so it might not
+    be too bad.
 
 Crashers
 --------
diff --git a/pd/src/s_inter.c b/pd/src/s_inter.c
index 0f355df030bb97c806f592d41d13eb6709f2a282..0bda5c887aa266eb896fbdb085f876cb625fdf40 100644
--- a/pd/src/s_inter.c
+++ b/pd/src/s_inter.c
@@ -753,9 +753,9 @@ void sys_gui(const char *s)
 }
 
 char *escape_double_quotes(const char *src) {
-    static char ret[MAXPDSTRING*2+1];
+    static char ret[MAXPDSTRING*4+1];
     char *escaped = ret; 
-    int i, len = MAXPDSTRING*2;
+    int i, len = MAXPDSTRING*4;
     for (i = 0; i < len-1 && src[i] != 0; i++)
     {
         if (src[i] == '\"')
@@ -767,7 +767,7 @@ char *escape_double_quotes(const char *src) {
                        "in a lazy attempt to escape double-quotes for the gui. "
                        "Please call me out publicly for this regression, and/or revise this "
                        "so it doesn't arbitrarily limit the size of the strings "
-                       "we can send to the gui.");
+                       "we can send to the gui.\n");
     return ret;
 }