Re: Problem copying large text under X

[Jan D.]

2004-11-05 kl. 16.58 skrev Kim F. Storm:

> I don't know the details of the protocol, but perhaps emacs could just
> ignore those extra polls for the clip-board if it hasn't changed and
> the request has the same originator?

I guess so, but some time limit has to be enforced, after all, the same 
client may very well request the same selection more than once (like 
pasting twice fast in an xterm).  Also, Emacs does not currently keep 
track of old requestors.

> BTW, I installed my fixes to selection processing (notably how events
> are queued), and it seems that the original problem I reported (emacs
> hanging for a long time when I copy a large selection) seems to be
> less noticable now -- but it is still slow if there is a large
> selection -- but now I know what's wrong :-|

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.

        Jan D.