Re: Strange slowness when killing words interactively

[Chong Yidong]

Taylor Venable <address@hidden> writes:

> Just let me know if you come up with any possible fixes or workarounds
> and I'll be more than happy to test them.

I'd like to find out if implementing the client side of the clipboard
manager spec, as David suggests, will reduce the slowness.  Could you
apply this patch (with the clipboard manager enabled and all other parts
of Emacs as per default) and see if it makes any performance difference?

*** lisp/select.el      2011-04-19 13:44:55 +0000
--- lisp/select.el      2011-05-16 22:25:40 +0000
***************
*** 384,389 ****
--- 384,392 ----
        (NAME . xselect-convert-to-name)
        (ATOM . xselect-convert-to-atom)
        (INTEGER . xselect-convert-to-integer)
+       ;; From freedesktop.org Clipboard Manager spec: used to tell
+       ;; clipboard manager that we support SAVE_TARGETS.
+       (SAVE_TARGETS . ignore)
        (_EMACS_INTERNAL . xselect-convert-to-identity)))
  
  (provide 'select)