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Re: Problem copying large text under X


From: Kim F. Storm
Subject: Re: Problem copying large text under X
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 02:00:21 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

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

> A comments on this.  I don't think duplicate events should be
> discarded.  As I said above, if you paste twice fast in an xterm,
> Emacs will get two requests that are identical.  Most often than not,
> the time in the request is set to CurrentTime (zero), so even that
> won't differ.

I looked at this some more -- and the removal of duplicates only
happens while the INCR protocol is used -- i.e. when we have a really
big selection.  

So it only happens when there is a genuine risk that selection
requests will arrive faster than we can process them.

-- 
Kim F. Storm  http://www.cua.dk





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