From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Subject: Re: Emacs hanging after M-w and C-k
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:30:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <436B0E1F.9060609@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4368A3F5.8030305@operax.com>
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>
>Every once in a while Emacs gets into a strange mood where any text killing
>(C-k, C-w, M-w, mouse selection, ...) causes it to hang (breakable with
>C-g, thank god).
>
>It turns out that it's due to some other app being stuck (probably while
>holding the X selection, tho my understanding of the X protocol is too
>flakey to be sure). So maybe it's not strictly speaking an Emacs bug, but
>I wish Emacs could grab the X selection asynchronously, so it wouldn't
>get stuck.
>
>Does anybody know how feasible this is?
>
>
If it get stuck in XSetSelectionOwner it is not feasible, as this is a
synchronous call in X. Can you verify that it is there it is stuck?
Jan D.
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2005-11-04 7:30 ` Jan D. [this message]
2005-11-07 21:28 ` Emacs hanging after M-w and C-k Stefan Monnier
2005-11-08 7:05 ` Jan D.
2005-11-01 15:56 Stefan Monnier
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