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Re: Saving the selection before killing
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Saving the selection before killing |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:21:31 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> But I think asking people to try it out will not result in many
> responses. People who like it will start using it silently, and
> people who don't like probably will not try it. The only way to
> get more opinions is to install it and wait for a reaction.
>
> I think people on this list will tell us what they think of it.
> Would people please try installing it and report what they think?
The main problem I saw with it was working over non-local X
connections where it could lead to annoying and inexplicable
slowdowns.
That is not the normal use case, but it is a situation where being
able to still work with Emacs would be important. I remember that
there has been a _lot_ of people complaining about inexplicable
slowdowns on the XEmacs developer list, and the general advice was to
disable some hooks that provided a similarly "sensible" default
behavior with respect to possibly unrelated selections.
I don't know the details, though, but it probably was the somewhat
different case of every Emacs kill command copying stuff to the
clipboard or so (or some clipboard application milking a selection
whenever one was available).
Anyway, the point is that this was also not detected as a problem in
testing, and still caused frequent annoyance for people with not too
unusual X setups. So I'd be careful of milking selections by default.
Maybe one reasonable test case would be two Emacs sessions side by
side. Oh, by the way: does Emacs see its own selections?
--
David Kastrup
- Saving the selection before killing (was: Selection not to be copied into kill-ring), Stefan Monnier, 2007/07/12
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, David Kastrup, 2007/07/12
- Re: Saving the selection before killing (was: Selection not to be copied into kill-ring), Richard Stallman, 2007/07/13
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Stefan Monnier, 2007/07/13
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/14
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Juri Linkov, 2007/07/15
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/16
- Re: Saving the selection before killing,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/18
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, David Kastrup, 2007/07/18
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Jan Djärv, 2007/07/18
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/18
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, David Kastrup, 2007/07/18
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Jan Djärv, 2007/07/18
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Jan Djärv, 2007/07/18
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Stefan Monnier, 2007/07/18
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Jan Djärv, 2007/07/19
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Stefan Monnier, 2007/07/19