From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com>
Cc: 72830@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Subject: bug#72830: Big rectangular selections are slow
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 08:40:42 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874j74w48l.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AAC45D97-2341-4A9C-90E9-60F3A8BA7F32@gmail.com> ("Mattias Engdegård"'s message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:39:37 +0200")
Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com> writes:
> - `select-active-regions` makes each selection change very expensive.
> Can be set to nil by the user, but I really suggest that we change
> the default to nil, at least for non-X11 since the default assumes
> old-school X11 PRIMARY selection which is alien on most other
> platforms.
No!!! Primary selections are an integral part of X, and users (many
trained on X) have come to expect it of Emacs on other systems.
Emacs supports saving a region in a buffer as a selection rather than an
entire string, which could be exercised in the case of rectangular
selections.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-08-29 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-27 12:39 bug#72830: Big rectangular selections are slow Mattias Engdegård
2024-08-27 13:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-27 14:04 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-27 16:42 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-08-27 17:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-27 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-27 18:23 ` Juri Linkov
2024-08-27 18:55 ` Drew Adams via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-27 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-27 19:44 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-29 3:56 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-29 10:22 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-08-29 11:18 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-08-29 8:09 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-08-29 20:04 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-30 15:20 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-09-20 12:53 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-08-29 0:45 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-29 3:39 ` Michael Heerdegen via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-29 4:44 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-08-29 0:40 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
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