Re: Saving the selection before killing

[Jan Djärv]

David Kastrup skrev:

> But if one is running more than one Emacs instance (and I don't know
> under which circumstances Emacs might offer _itself_ a selection),
> then we _have_ the same porential for large selections flying around.

If Emacs requests the selection it does not know that the program offering the 
selection is another instance of Emacs.  So different instances of Emacs 
behaves just like one instance of Emacs and several X programs w.r.t. selections.

> > The question is how much slowdown this feature adds when there is no
> > selection.
>
> Uh, why?  Can we rule out that there are large selections?

Oh, no we can't and should not.

        Jan D.