GNU bug report logs - #20283
25.0.50; Emacs freezes when yanking

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>

Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 09:25:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: moreinfo, patch

Merged with 16737, 17026, 17101, 17172, 19320

Found in versions 24.3.50, 24.4, 25.0.50

Done: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 20283 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 20283 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20283: 25.0.50; Emacs freezes when yanking
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 12:57:21 +0300

> From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 11:24:19 +0200
> 
> 
> Since recently, I sometimes get short freezes when yanking text, i.e., I
> either kill some text in emacs or mark some text in other applications
> so that it is added to the X selection, and then when I do `C-y' emacs
> hangs for some seconds, and then the actual yank is performed.
> 
> Sometimes, I get the following error message just before the freeze
> stops:
> 
>   gui-get-selection: (error "Timed out waiting for reply from selection owner")

There were several similar bug reports lately, at least these: 17172,
17101, 17026, 17737.  I suggest to read those discussions, perhaps
there are some ideas there.
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