From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46935: 28.0.50; Annoying interactions with X clipboard Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2021 13:33:53 +0100 Message-ID: <875z24piku.fsf@gnus.org> References: <87blbyzefq.fsf@web.de> <871rctr9w5.fsf@gnus.org> <87im658bed.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="33742"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 46935@debbugs.gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 06 13:35:21 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lIW9R-0008cf-3n for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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I didn't have that impression, but as I said, I can't test > ATM. No, Emacs hangs forever -- that is, until you hit `C-g'. We could add a timeout for this... but yanking data can take an arbitrary amount of time, so I'm not sure we want to go in that direction, either. For instance, if the process we're yanking from is busy doing something else for a couple of seconds, we will get the data after it stops being busy, and a timeout that's longer than a couple of seconds isn't very useful anyway. So I think the current design -- just wait indefinitely, or until the user says `C-g' -- is probably the correct one. Any opinions? In the default Emacs settings, you're only affected when actually trying to paste something from other programs, but if you have a package/use settings that make Emacs interact with the clipboard/primary selection all the time (which it sounds like you have?), then the problem is exacerbated, of course. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no