Re: Problem copying large text under X

[Jan D.]

Kim F. Storm wrote:
> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
>
> emacs -Q
> C-x C-f xdisp.c RET
> C-x h
> M-w
>
> Sometimes this takes a long time and emacs seems to hang...
>
> [If this is excepted, shouldn't it show the hourglass cursor in this case?]
>
> When I get tired of waiting, I type C-g, which triggers the following error:
>
> Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x2ad6)!
>
> But emacs is still unresponsive...

You must be running some external program like xclipboard that tries to get the 
selection as you do M-w.  What is the name of that program?  I tried this with 
xclipboard and it works as expected (i.e. almost instantly xclipboard gets the 
selection).  It could be a bug in Emacs.  The selection is so large that it 
uses the INCR protocol.  On the other hand, the external program may also have 
some bug.  Can you try running xclipboard and see if works then?  You have to 
copy to the CLIPBOARD, this can be done by doing Copy from the Edit menu, or 
setting x-select-enable-clipboard to t and doing M-w as normal.

        Jan D.