From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Saving the selection before killing Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:44:51 +0200 Message-ID: <469F1673.7040201@swipnet.se> References: <5fmk5pF3bo3fbU1@mid.individual.net> <87hco5xtbv.fsf@jurta.org> <868x9f30fo.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <469DDB7C.4090007@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184831149 17277 80.91.229.12 (19 Jul 2007 07:45:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:45:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 19 09:45:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IBQhm-0004dr-Dm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:45:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IBQhl-0006q0-PD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:45:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IBQhj-0006ps-Br for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:45:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IBQhf-0006pg-Pn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:45:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IBQhf-0006pd-MM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:45:39 -0400 Original-Received: from av9-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net ([81.228.9.185]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IBQhe-0000j9-LY; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:45:38 -0400 Original-Received: by av9-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id A172937F4A; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:45:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.101]) by av9-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C73437E69; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:45:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from husetbladh.homeip.net (81-235-205-78-no59.tbcn.telia.com [81.235.205.78]) by smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C51137E46; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:45:35 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070604) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75112 Archived-At: Richard Stallman skrev: > > 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? Yes, if I did something in another program before C-y. But that is a feature, I expect that. But maybe 99% of my C-y is from the kill ring Emacs maintains itself, that is a kill was made and Emacs has the selection. Given programs like klipper, you always will have a selection. Jan D.