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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 46935@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46935: 28.0.50; Annoying interactions with X clipboard
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2021 04:01:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s6x9gjp.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8ftmoox.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 08 Mar 2021 20:26:54 +0100")

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> > `x-selection-timeout'.  Shouldn't that be "our" variable?  Seems I have
> > set it to 0 (meaning infinity) in my config.  Here on this system the
> > variable is initialized with 5000 (milliseconds).
>
> Ah, I thought Emacs hung forever, but it turns out I was just too
> impatient.  Emacs does indeed hang for just five seconds (when testing
> with two "emacs -Q"s).

Would it be appropriate and technically possible to implement a visual
feedback like "waiting up to X seconds for feedback from whatever" or
even a little countdown "waiting for feedback from system clipboard, 3,
2, 1, giving up" or so?


> Killing text shouldn't hang Emacs, I'd have thought [...]

Question is whether that can be avoided.  Does anybody know?


Regards,

Michael.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-09  3:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-04 23:28 bug#46935: 28.0.50; Annoying interactions with X clipboard Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-05 13:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-05 22:48   ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-06 12:33     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-07  0:03       ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-08 19:26         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-09  3:01           ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2021-03-09 14:11             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-03-10  2:10               ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-06-20 11:53           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-20 12:59             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-06-20 15:34               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-22 12:46                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-06-23  9:02                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
     [not found] ` <87y2f2m551.fsf@posteo.net>
2021-03-05 22:43   ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-06  2:55     ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-06  6:11       ` Thierry Volpiatto
2021-03-07  0:07         ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-07  6:07           ` Eli Zaretskii

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