Re: [EPeterson@mcdonaldbradley.com: Kill ring leak in winemacs macros]

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

"Stuart D. Herring" <herring@lanl.gov> writes:

> Moreover, this whole change would be optional (customizable), so the
> user of any such macro could turn off that option

OK. I don't expect my hypothetical case will come up often, but it is
possible. I just wanted to make sure that simply binding some
variables to nil was not the final solution to this.

> One point, remains, though: Richard said he wanted the kill-ring
> re-synchronized with the external world at the end of a keyboard macro
> that desynched them; I guess that would have to go in execute-kbd-macro. 
> But what should happen if both Emacs and the window system have new text
> at that point (where no ordering exists between them)?

Leave the clipboard alone in such a case.