Re: Problem copying large text under X

[Kim F. Storm]

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

>> "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.
>
> That is good, it is better for the user that Emacs stays responsive,
> and he can always paste again if Emacs discards one request.


>                                                               But I
> think sending a reject is better that just discarding.  After all,
> Emacs knows it won't handle the request, and the other side then
> doesn't have to time out.

Sounds reasonable -- I'll do that.

>                            I don't know how klipper acts on that
> though.

It makes klipper send 3 times as many requests...

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