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28.0.50; Annoying interactions with X clipboard

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 46935 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46935: 28.0.50; Annoying interactions with X clipboard
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2021 15:11:27 +0100

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:

> 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?

Looking at the code (it's receive_incremental_selection that does this
stuff, I guess?), it seems like it should be possible to implement
something like that in wait_for_property_change.

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