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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Ole Laursen <olau@hardworking.dk>
Cc: 1765@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#1765: Copy/paste inconsistent with other X apps
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:29:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy6xqij96.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac6fcf750901040829q5839e00bwa1667fb132ac6c27@mail.gmail.com> (Ole Laursen's message of "Sun, 4 Jan 2009 17:29:59 +0100")

> Regarding speed issues: other applications with much larger data sets
> can use the clipboard without problems. If you read Jamie Zawinski's

IIRC the speed issue had to do with the fact that in Emacs it is very
common to select the region (with the keyboard) for purposes that have
nothing to do with cut&paste.  E.g. you may select enormous amounts of
text (e.g. almost the whole buffer) just to perform a search&replace or
an undo-in-region.

If you consider "select a region with the keyboard" as meaning "copy to
clipboard", then you can end up with serious performance problems.
Even more so with remote connections, of course.

So as long as "copy to clipboard" is a separate command there shouldn't
be any problem.


        Stefan






  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-05  2:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-04  3:33 bug#1765: Copy/paste inconsistent with other X apps Chong Yidong
2009-01-04  8:09 ` Sven Joachim
2009-01-04 16:29   ` Ole Laursen
2009-01-05  2:29     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-01-05 12:59       ` Ole Laursen
     [not found] ` <mailman.3895.1231057410.26697.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-05 12:15   ` Thomas E. Dickey
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-08-07 19:31 Ole Laursen
2009-01-25 23:58 David De La Harpe Golden
2009-01-02 15:41 Ole Laursen
2009-01-04 21:41 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-01-05 12:52   ` Ole Laursen
2009-01-05 13:00     ` Ole Laursen

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