Thanks.  I sort of feel like current-kill should time out, whether this new option is set or not, if that's possible in emacs lisp.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
severity 2289 wishlist
thanks

> Fix: The following one-line patch seems to work, but I'm no emacs
> hacker, so among other things, there's no configuration.  It just
> saves the clipboard to the kill-ring before killing if yank would
> result in yanking the clipboard instead of the top of the kill ring.

I use a similar patch myself.
And actually I tried to get it accepted, but it was turned down because
of the problems it introduces when the "current-kill" hangs (e.g. when
the holder of the selection is suspended).
We should add it together, conditional on some config var.
That will be for Emacs-23.2, tho.


       Stefan