Re: Problem copying large text under X

[Kim F. Storm]

"Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:

> 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?

klipper -- it's the KDE clipboard.

I cannot find specific version info, but it's the one that came
with Redhat 9 (KDE 3.1-10 Red Hat).

> 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.

I will try this.

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