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From: Allan Streib <astreib@indiana.edu>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: x-selection-value slow with primary selection
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 10:41:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874n8qcxrs.fsf@indiana.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <97AB7F49-3D5D-4B0B-821B-ED21165961B5@Web.DE>

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> writes:

> Maybe there are two effects involved. Could be text properties are getting copied too. The second effect can be due to text encoding issues.
>
> You could try to synchronise the text encoding issue. If GNU Emacs would use the same default encoding as the X server uses, then some time could be saved.
>
> The other issue can be solved by telling the X server not to handle text properties – and/or setting this in GNU Emacs.

Interesting idea. Do you have any links to instructions on how to tell X
and/or Emacs to not handle text properties? I am not finding anything
with web searches.

I almost never want to copy/paste formatting, only the text, so I would
love to know how to configure this globally in X.

Allan



  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-09 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-08 16:30 x-selection-value slow with primary selection Allan Streib
2013-10-09  9:06 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-10-09 14:41   ` Allan Streib [this message]
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3676.1381329693.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-09 15:23     ` Damien Wyart
2013-10-09 15:41       ` Allan Streib

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