From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: 29889@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, m.sujith@gmail.com
Subject: bug#29889: 27.0.50; Slow visual selection
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 16:18:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tu9k9wbc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnegv0mo.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Fri, 20 May 2022 20:39:43 +0800)
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, m.sujith@gmail.com, 29889@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 20:39:43 +0800
>
> > How do other apps handle request to put huge chunks of text into the
> > primary selection? If they honor such requests seamlessly and without
> > slowing down the response, why cannot Emacs do the same?
>
> Those programs only "own" the selection without copying anything. When
> another program asks for the contents of the selection, they are sent
> directly from the "buffer" containing them. (That does mean if the
> buffer contents change, so will the contents of the selection.)
What if the buffer is killed?
Anyway, if other applications behave like that, why cannot Emacs do
the same?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-20 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-29 3:52 bug#29889: 27.0.50; Slow visual selection Sujith
2017-12-29 9:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-30 1:36 ` Sujith
2017-12-30 10:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-31 5:25 ` Sujith
2017-12-31 7:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-31 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-06 1:15 ` Sujith
2018-01-06 8:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-06 15:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-01-06 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-07 15:24 ` bug#29889: [SUSPECTED SPAM] " Stefan Monnier
2018-01-07 16:08 ` martin rudalics
2018-01-07 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-07 17:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-01-06 15:46 ` Sujith
2017-12-31 8:42 ` Sujith
2017-12-31 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-31 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-21 13:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-20 2:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-20 7:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-20 9:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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2022-05-20 11:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2022-05-20 12:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2022-05-20 13:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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