Subject: bug#55870: GNU Emacs 26.3, Select All(C-x h) does not work

From: Bruce <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 10:38:25 +0800

(default-value 'selection-coding-system)

reports: nil

What functions do emacs call after I press Meta-w?

It seems they copy a lot of junks to the memory

(copying one 424KByte file occupies 5.9GByte system memory)

On 2022/7/16 下午1:37, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
>> From: Bruce <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 08:15:55 +0800
>>
>> window-system is a variable defined in ‘C source code’.
>> Its value is ‘x’
>> It is a terminal-local variable; global value is the same.
>>
>> selection-coding-system is a variable defined in ‘select.el’.
>> Its value is nil
> Thanks.  And what does the below report?
>
>    M-: (default-value 'selection-coding-system) RET