From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [EPeterson@mcdonaldbradley.com: Kill ring leak in winemacs macros]
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 21:52:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42F1208D.1070307@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <34161.128.165.123.83.1123097221.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov>
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-03 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-03 19:10 [EPeterson@mcdonaldbradley.com: Kill ring leak in winemacs macros] Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-03 19:27 ` Stuart D. Herring
2005-08-03 19:52 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2005-08-03 20:59 ` Stuart D. Herring
2005-08-03 21:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-04 3:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-08-04 7:25 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-03 23:12 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-08-04 15:34 ` Stuart D. Herring
2005-08-16 15:07 ` Stuart D. Herring
2005-08-16 16:10 ` Jason Rumney
2005-08-16 16:19 ` Jason Rumney
2005-08-17 6:24 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-18 16:43 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-08-18 21:15 ` Jason Rumney
2005-08-18 22:17 ` Stuart D. Herring
2005-08-16 16:31 ` Stuart D. Herring
2005-08-16 21:38 ` Jason Rumney
2005-08-18 16:57 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-08-18 16:56 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-08-18 17:52 ` Stuart D. Herring
2005-08-04 12:48 ` Richard M. Stallman
[not found] ` <E1E0f9R-0003Pk-NJ@fencepost.gnu.org>
2005-08-04 14:19 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-08-04 15:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-08-05 11:59 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-05 12:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-08-06 6:27 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-08-05 13:48 ` defadvice in Emacs code (was: " Lennart Borgman
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