From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [EPeterson@mcdonaldbradley.com: Kill ring leak in winemacs macros] Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 21:52:45 +0200 Message-ID: <42F1208D.1070307@student.lu.se> References: <34161.128.165.123.83.1123097221.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123098898 19118 80.91.229.2 (3 Aug 2005 19:54:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 19:54:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 03 21:54:56 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0PIz-0002on-W2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 21:53:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0PLl-0006LC-4I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:56:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E0PLX-0006K4-D0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:56:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E0PLS-0006HU-Ud for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:56:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0PLR-0006H4-TG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 15:56:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.83] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E0PUv-00080f-4G; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:05:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.205.6) by pne-smtpout1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 42BFBBD2005CBDF7; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 21:52:46 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: herring@lanl.gov In-Reply-To: <34161.128.165.123.83.1123097221.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:41461 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41461 Stuart D. Herring wrote: >>I don't entirely understand this, but I suggest that someone who uses >>Windows read it and DTRT. >> >> > >This doesn't seem to be Windows-specific at all; he says that using the >system clipboard while running a (long/repeated) macro that uses Emacs' >kill ring loses because they're constantly being synchronized. That >should be true on any system with interprogram cut/paste. > >He also attributes a perceived slowness on W32 to this synchronization, >but that seems unlikely (I'd think it more likely to be slower redisplay >or so on W32). > >So, what he really wants is to not have the system clipboard consulted or >updated during the execution of a keyboard macro, when the kill-ring >should be "internal" data. If that sounds like a good idea, I can whip up >a patch. > >Davis Herring > > Is not the variable `x-select-enable-clipboard' for this?