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28.0.50; Annoying interactions with X clipboard

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 46935 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46935: 28.0.50; Annoying interactions with X clipboard
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2021 04:01:14 +0100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> > `x-selection-timeout'.  Shouldn't that be "our" variable?  Seems I have
> > set it to 0 (meaning infinity) in my config.  Here on this system the
> > variable is initialized with 5000 (milliseconds).
>
> Ah, I thought Emacs hung forever, but it turns out I was just too
> impatient.  Emacs does indeed hang for just five seconds (when testing
> with two "emacs -Q"s).

Would it be appropriate and technically possible to implement a visual
feedback like "waiting up to X seconds for feedback from whatever" or
even a little countdown "waiting for feedback from system clipboard, 3,
2, 1, giving up" or so?


> Killing text shouldn't hang Emacs, I'd have thought [...]

Question is whether that can be avoided.  Does anybody know?


Regards,

Michael.

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