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Re: Saving the selection before killing
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Saving the selection before killing |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:25:21 -0400 |
Search for klipper in etc/PROBLEMS. Now this proposal will make Emacs
behave
like a buggy klipper.
I think that's somewhat of an exaggeration. Emacs would only request
the selection when you type a kill command at it.
This may or may not be a good feature, but I don't think it is decided
by that.
If the selection in large, Emacs will be slow
and unresponsive.
That is a real factor. We need people to try it and see
how big a facter it is.
The selection may be data Emacs can't handle anyway,
such
as audio data.
That is a real issue too. If we make this an Emacs features,
it means, in effect, that users should check for a selection in
other windows before typing a kill command in Emacs.
So the question is whether that is a convenient way to use Emacs.
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?
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, (continued)
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Stefan Monnier, 2007/07/18
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Jan Djärv, 2007/07/19
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Stefan Monnier, 2007/07/19
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Jan Djärv, 2007/07/20
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Stefan Monnier, 2007/07/20
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Jan Djärv, 2007/07/20
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/21
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/21
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/21
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Jan Djärv, 2007/07/21
- Re: Saving the selection before killing,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Jan Djärv, 2007/07/19
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/19
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Jan Djärv, 2007/07/20
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/21
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Jan Djärv, 2007/07/21
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/21
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Jan Djärv, 2007/07/22
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/22
- Re: Saving the selection before killing, Jan Djärv, 2007/07/22