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using one expression to make multiple X selections

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: libreville <libreville <at> riseup.net>
Subject: bug#73830: closed (Re: bug#73830: using one expression to make
 multiple X selections)
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 10:39:03 +0000

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Your bug report

#73830: using one expression to make multiple X selections

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 73830 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: snooze button <snooze-button <at> riseup.net>
Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 73830-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#73830: using one expression to make multiple X selections
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2024 12:38:08 +0200

> Cc: 73830 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:29:38 +0200
> From: snooze button <snooze-button <at> riseup.net>
> 
> On 17/10/2024 1:49, Po Lu wrote:
> 
>  Why does waiting work around the problem?
> 
> Because it takes time for X clipboard managers to respond to selection
> ownership changes and to complete reading from other programs'
> selections.
> 
> Not a bug, sorry.
> 
> Thanks for the explanation, and no need to apologise!
> 
> For those of us wanting to read more on this, I dug around a bit and found some explanations
> 
> here https://github.com/jhunt/xclipd,
> 
> here https://jameshunt.us/writings/x11-clipboard-management-foibles/,
> 
> and here https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2017-04-02/0/POSTING-en.html

It sounds like there's nothing we can do here, so I'm now closing this
bug.

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From: libreville <libreville <at> riseup.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: using one expression to make multiple X selections
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:04:36 +0000

My apologies, that should of course have read "sleep-for 1", not
"wait-for 1".

On 2024-10-15 13:59, libreville wrote:

> 
> (progn 
>   (gui-set-selection 'CLIPBOARD "3")
>   (wait-for 1)
>   (gui-set-selection 'CLIPBOARD "4"))
> 

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