GNU bug report logs - #29889
27.0.50; Slow visual selection

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 29889 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, m.sujith <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#29889: 27.0.50; Slow visual selection
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 21:27:54 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> What if the buffer is killed?

Then the selection is disowned, which means other programs will no
longer ask the buffer's program for the contents of the selection.

> Anyway, if other applications behave like that, why cannot Emacs do
> the same?

That would be setting the selection to a cons of two buffer positions.

We could also only do that upon the region reaching a given size, to
avoid disturbing people who rely on the current behavior.

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