Re: Saving the selection before killing

[Jan Djärv]

Richard Stallman skrev:

> 
>     The time it takes to send a request to the X server and get a reply.  But 
> for 
>     a "normal" X session, you almost always have a selection somewhere.
> 
> If that is true, doesn't it impact Emacs a lot?  If you go to the
> Emacs window and type C-y, do you nearly always get a selection from
> some other program?

Yes, if I did something in another program before C-y.  But that is a feature,
I expect that.  But maybe 99% of my C-y is from the kill ring Emacs maintains
itself, that is a kill was made and Emacs has the selection.

Given programs like klipper, you always will have a selection.

        Jan D.