I can't paste / type more than 625 characters in the openwrt console

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I was trying to download a torrent with aria when I found out about this. When you paste something with more than 625 characters in length into the openwrt console (with ssh) it gets cut off. Here's the magnet link I was trying to download:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4IHYKQEPEPRM7AQ37RKU2YZYHLIJEUWV&tr=http://nyaa.tracker.wf:7777/announce&tr=udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969/announce&tr=udp://tracker.internetwarriors.net:1337/announce&tr=udp://tracker.leechers-paradise.org:6969/announce&tr=http://tracker.internetwarriors.net:1337/announce&tr=udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce&tr=http://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce&tr=udp://tracker.zer0day.to:1337/announce&tr=http://explodie.org:6969/announce&tr=http://p4p.arenabg.com:1337/announce&tr=udp://p4p.arenabg.com:1337/announce&tr=http://mgtracker.org:6969/announce&tr=udp://mgtracker.org:6969/announce

Pasting the magnet link into the console is fine but when you add the command aria2c in the beginning, the magnet link gets cut off. Is there a way to get rid of this? I want to be able to paste as many characters as possible, at least 1000 characters in length so that I can download magnet links without a hassle.

Note that pasting more than 625 characters inside vi or vim on openwrt works just fine, it just doesn't work when you paste it right into the console.

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You will need to make your own build with larger console buffer length with the following in the .config file:

CONFIG_BUSYBOX_CONFIG_FEATURE_EDITING_MAX_LEN=

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Can I do this from the Image Builder or do I have to build from scratch ?

EDIT:
There's

CONFIG_BUSYBOX_DEFAULT_FEATURE_EDITING=y
CONFIG_BUSYBOX_DEFAULT_FEATURE_EDITING_MAX_LEN=512

in the .config of my image builder, I can probably do this here. If only I can just compile the busybox only without having to compile the whole firmware.

UPDATE:
I can actually just compile the busybox without compiling the whole firmware, here's how:

  1. Find the option CONFIG_BUSYBOX_DEFAULT_FEATURE_EDITING_MAX_LEN=512 and change 512 to something bigger, I changed mine to 2048
  2. This is optional but I love to have history on my openwrt so I also enabled this CONFIG_BUSYBOX_DEFAULT_FEATURE_EDITING_SAVEHISTORY=y
  3. Compile busybox with make package/busybox/compile V=99
  4. Transfer the new busybox to your openwrt with scp
  5. Install the new busybox with opkg install --force-checksum /tmp/busybox*ipk
  6. Reboot your router with reboot
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