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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
72830@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
juri@linkov.net
Subject: bug#72830: Big rectangular selections are slow
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 08:45:19 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wmk0upgg.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B5EE97B2-A650-4B86-8481-11BE5D1C193A@gmail.com> ("Mattias Engdegård"'s message of "Tue, 27 Aug 2024 18:42:19 +0200")
Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard@gmail.com> writes:
> It's pretty bonkers, yes. There is even a noticeable slow-down with a
> single contiguous selection. Fortunately the cure is easy.
>
>> I thought the extraction of the region's content to put it into PRIMARY
>> and friends happened more lazily (e.g. when another application
>> requests the PRIMARY/CLIPBOARD, or when we deactivate the region).
>
> That would indeed have made some kind of sense. If confined to X11,
> that is. And opt-in, even then.
No well-written X program of the past 30 years does not export its
selected text as the primary selection, and users of free desktops are
long accustomed to its existence, with the result that Wayland desktops
implement primary selections by a number of protocols. This is simply
not an option.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-08-29 0:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ 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
2024-09-21 2:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-09-21 8:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-21 3:05 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-22 13:27 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-09-22 14:12 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-22 15:16 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-09-22 15:32 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-22 16:22 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-09-22 17:37 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-09-23 10:42 ` Mattias Engdegård
2024-08-29 0:45 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
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
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