From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: juri@jurta.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Saving the selection before killing
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:25:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IBNZp-0001kC-Lf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <469DDB7C.4090007@swipnet.se> (message from Jan Djärv on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:21:00 +0200)
Search for klipper in etc/PROBLEMS. Now this proposal will make Emacs behave
like a buggy klipper.
I think that's somewhat of an exaggeration. Emacs would only request
the selection when you type a kill command at it.
This may or may not be a good feature, but I don't think it is decided
by that.
If the selection in large, Emacs will be slow
and unresponsive.
That is a real factor. We need people to try it and see
how big a facter it is.
The selection may be data Emacs can't handle anyway, such
as audio data.
That is a real issue too. If we make this an Emacs features,
it means, in effect, that users should check for a selection in
other windows before typing a kill command in Emacs.
So the question is whether that is a convenient way to use Emacs.
The time it takes to send a request to the X server and get a reply. But for
a "normal" X session, you almost always have a selection somewhere.
If that is true, doesn't it impact Emacs a lot? If you go to the
Emacs window and type C-y, do you nearly always get a selection from
some other program?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-19 4:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <mailman.3386.1184244752.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-07-12 20:31 ` Saving the selection before killing (was: Selection not to be copied into kill-ring) Stefan Monnier
2007-07-12 20:45 ` Saving the selection before killing David Kastrup
2007-07-13 18:38 ` Saving the selection before killing (was: Selection not to be copied into kill-ring) Richard Stallman
2007-07-13 19:11 ` Saving the selection before killing Stefan Monnier
2007-07-14 18:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-15 22:54 ` Juri Linkov
2007-07-17 3:34 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-17 8:21 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 4:41 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-18 5:44 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 9:28 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-18 20:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-18 21:05 ` David Kastrup
2007-07-18 9:24 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-18 9:21 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-18 18:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-19 7:35 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-19 17:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-20 6:27 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-20 15:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-07-20 16:50 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-21 16:54 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-21 16:54 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-21 4:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-21 9:22 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-19 4:25 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-07-19 7:44 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-19 21:21 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-20 6:33 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-21 4:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-21 9:28 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-22 1:49 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-22 7:55 ` Jan Djärv
2007-07-22 18:37 ` Richard Stallman
2007-07-22 20:32 ` Jan Djärv
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