* bug#73830: using one expression to make multiple X selections [not found] <4a2f64e201951a525ab56fab135c4777@riseup.net> @ 2024-10-15 18:04 ` libreville 2024-10-16 19:42 ` libreville 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: libreville @ 2024-10-15 18:04 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 73830 My apologies, that should of course have read "sleep-for 1", not "wait-for 1". On 2024-10-15 13:59, libreville wrote: > > (progn > (gui-set-selection 'CLIPBOARD "3") > (wait-for 1) > (gui-set-selection 'CLIPBOARD "4")) > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* bug#73830: using one expression to make multiple X selections 2024-10-15 18:04 ` bug#73830: using one expression to make multiple X selections libreville @ 2024-10-16 19:42 ` libreville 2024-10-16 21:54 ` Jeremy Bryant via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors 2024-10-16 23:49 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors 0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: libreville @ 2024-10-16 19:42 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 73830 Hi there, going by the list archive, my first email didn't go through. Here it is again in case that's right: Hello, I stumbled on this while trying to elisp a few things into my X clipboard manager. Evaluating these two expressions in turn: (gui-set-selection 'CLIPBOARD "1") (gui-set-selection 'CLIPBOARD "2") results in both "1" and "2" being saved to the clipboard history. However: (progn (gui-set-selection 'CLIPBOARD "1") (gui-set-selection 'CLIPBOARD "2")) results in "2" being saved to the clipboard history but, contrary to what I would expect, not "1". On the other hand this: (progn (gui-set-selection 'CLIPBOARD "3") (sleep-for 1) (gui-set-selection 'CLIPBOARD "4")) gets both "3" and "4" onto the clipboard (history). I get similar results with kill-new in place of gui-set-selection 'CLIBOARD and with other ways of grouping the two kills into one expression. Why does waiting work around the problem? Tested with both copyq and clipman / Emacs 28.2 / Xfce. Best, liv. On 2024-10-15 18:04, libreville wrote: > My apologies, that should of course have read "sleep-for 1", not > "wait-for 1". > > On 2024-10-15 13:59, libreville wrote: > >> >> (progn >> (gui-set-selection 'CLIPBOARD "3") >> (wait-for 1) >> (gui-set-selection 'CLIPBOARD "4")) >> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* bug#73830: using one expression to make multiple X selections 2024-10-16 19:42 ` libreville @ 2024-10-16 21:54 ` Jeremy Bryant via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors 2024-10-16 23:49 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Jeremy Bryant via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors @ 2024-10-16 21:54 UTC (permalink / raw) To: libreville; +Cc: 73830 libreville <libreville@riseup.net> writes: > > Why does waiting work around the problem? > > Tested with both copyq and clipman / Emacs 28.2 / Xfce. Have you tried with a more recent version of Emacs? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* bug#73830: using one expression to make multiple X selections 2024-10-16 19:42 ` libreville 2024-10-16 21:54 ` Jeremy Bryant via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors @ 2024-10-16 23:49 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors 2024-10-17 11:29 ` snooze button 1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors @ 2024-10-16 23:49 UTC (permalink / raw) To: libreville; +Cc: 73830 libreville <libreville@riseup.net> writes: > Hi there, > > going by the list archive, my first email didn't go through. Here it is > again in case that's right: > > > Hello, > > I stumbled on this while trying to elisp a few things into my X > clipboard manager. Evaluating these two expressions in turn: > > (gui-set-selection 'CLIPBOARD "1") > (gui-set-selection 'CLIPBOARD "2") > > results in both "1" and "2" being saved to the clipboard history. > However: > > (progn > (gui-set-selection 'CLIPBOARD "1") > (gui-set-selection 'CLIPBOARD "2")) > > results in "2" being saved to the clipboard history but, contrary to > what I would expect, not "1". On the other hand this: > > (progn > (gui-set-selection 'CLIPBOARD "3") > (sleep-for 1) > (gui-set-selection 'CLIPBOARD "4")) > > gets both "3" and "4" onto the clipboard (history). I get similar > results with kill-new in place of gui-set-selection 'CLIBOARD and with > other ways of grouping the two kills into one expression. > > Why does waiting work around the problem? Because it takes time for X clipboard managers to respond to selection ownership changes and to complete reading from other programs' selections. Not a bug, sorry. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* bug#73830: using one expression to make multiple X selections 2024-10-16 23:49 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors @ 2024-10-17 11:29 ` snooze button 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: snooze button @ 2024-10-17 11:29 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Po Lu; +Cc: 73830 [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 595 bytes --] On 17/10/2024 1:49, Po Lu wrote: >> Why does waiting work around the problem? > Because it takes time for X clipboard managers to respond to selection > ownership changes and to complete reading from other programs' > selections. > > Not a bug, sorry. Thanks for the explanation, and no need to apologise! For those of us wanting to read more on this, I dug around a bit and found some explanations here https://github.com/jhunt/xclipd, here https://jameshunt.us/writings/x11-clipboard-management-foibles/, and here https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2017-04-02/0/POSTING-en.html [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 1501 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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