From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2022 17:09:27 +0100 Message-ID: <87o83krn7s.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <20220205193944.836651.FMU2130669@unexploded-cow.prv.splode.com> <87o83kphri.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39818"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:UHg7xHhsoD7x+v3paKRTceU9JRM= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 06 17:11:51 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nGk8l-000ADQ-Mq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2022 17:11:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55520 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nGk8k-00062Z-KO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2022 11:11:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50010) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nGk6e-00054u-Hd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2022 11:09:40 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:49874) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nGk6c-0002bj-7O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2022 11:09:40 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nGk6Y-0007ex-LN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Feb 2022 17:09:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:285979 Archived-At: Po Lu writes: >> That means when I yank, I don't get the thing I've most recently copied to >> the clipboard. I get some old thing from the primary selection. >> >> I don't understand how this new behavior is meant to be useful. > > It is meant to be useful by providing a visible performance improvement > when Emacs is run over a network with moderate latency, by not querying > the X server for the value of CLIPBOARD when text was last killed inside > Emacs. And yes, that is what motivated me to install that change. I have many hours of experience using Emacs through ADSL, 3G and even EGPRS links with the NX protocol. Can you show some numbers to quantify that visible performance improvement? And an step-by-step procedure to demonstrate the before/after difference?