From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 29889@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org, m.sujith@gmail.com
Subject: bug#29889: 27.0.50; Slow visual selection
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 20:39:43 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnegv0mo.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zgjc9z2j.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 20 May 2022 15:19:00 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> That's bad UX, IMO: chances are you don't know that only part of the
> text was put in the selection. Or do you suggest displaying a warning
> when text in the selection is truncated?
The latter, yes.
> How do other apps handle request to put huge chunks of text into the
> primary selection? If they honor such requests seamlessly and without
> slowing down the response, why cannot Emacs do the same?
Those programs only "own" the selection without copying anything. When
another program asks for the contents of the selection, they are sent
directly from the "buffer" containing them. (That does mean if the
buffer contents change, so will the contents of the selection.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-20 12:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-29 3:52 bug#29889: 27.0.50; Slow visual selection Sujith
2017-12-29 9:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-30 1:36 ` Sujith
2017-12-30 10:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-31 5:25 ` Sujith
2017-12-31 7:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-31 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-06 1:15 ` Sujith
2018-01-06 8:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-06 15:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-01-06 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-07 15:24 ` bug#29889: [SUSPECTED SPAM] " Stefan Monnier
2018-01-07 16:08 ` martin rudalics
2018-01-07 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-07 17:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-01-06 15:46 ` Sujith
2017-12-31 8:42 ` Sujith
2017-12-31 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-31 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-21 13:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-20 2:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-20 7:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-20 9:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-20 8:35 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-20 8:39 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-20 11:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-20 9:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-20 9:23 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-20 10:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-20 11:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-20 11:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-20 11:47 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-20 12:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-20 12:16 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-20 12:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-20 12:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-20 13:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-21 12:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-21 12:24 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-21 13:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-22 1:13 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-22 11:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-22 12:07 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-22 12:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-22 12:30 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-23 7:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-23 9:04 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-23 9:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-23 9:56 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-20 11:45 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-20 11:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-20 11:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-20 11:51 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-20 12:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-20 12:39 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2022-05-20 13:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-20 13:27 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-20 11:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-20 11:49 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-05-20 12:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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