Re: Saving the selection before killing

[Jan Djärv]

Stefan Monnier skrev:
>> Search for klipper in etc/PROBLEMS.  Now this proposal will make Emacs
>> behave like a buggy klipper.
> 
> Not at all.  The bug in the klipper was that it requested the selection over
> and over.  My code only causes the selection to be requested when it shifts
> from being owned by some other app to being owned by Emacs.  I.e. there's no
> looping involved.

Looping was only part of the problem.  Large selection was also a factor.  If
Emacs will request large selections from other programs, they can become
sluggish too.  In the common case this is not a problem as selection usually
are small, i.e. a couple of lines.

> 
>> I'd be annoyes to see that in my kill ring.
> 
> Please try it before jumping to conclusions.
> 

I did try it.  Open up an OO document with some pages, select all text in the
document.  Move to Emacs, kill some text, C-y, M-y

I get the OO document pasted as a big chunk of text.  Pasting the selection
from other applications into Emacs (or any other application) over a slow link
is already a problem.  This would make it worse.

        Jan D.