Re: Emacs hanging after M-w and C-k

["Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>>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?
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>Hmm.... OK it turns out that it's a problem due to my own local hacks (see
>the patch below).  So in a vanilla Emacs, the way to reproduce a similar
>problem is to do C-y when another app has the selection and is frozen.
>But unless we add a timeout, there is little we can do about it in the case
>of C-y.  In the case of the patch below, I'd want to run
>interprogram-paste-function asynchronously, but it's not clear how to do.
>That's too bad: I was planning to submit the patch below for inclusion.
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For C-y there is x-selection-timeout (default seems to be 20000, 20 
seconds).  Does that not work for you?  Actually, it seems to timeout 
somewhat later than the actual value, i.e. if I set it to 1000 (1 
second) the timeout occurs at about 2 seconds.

    Jan D.

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