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Unjustified selection time-out

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 8869 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8869: Unjustified selection time-out
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:00:39 +0800

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> 1) 20 seconds seems a very long default. If whatever Emacs wants to
> contact does not respond in say 5 seconds, is it likely to in 20?
>
> 2) Someone who starts Emacs from a menu item as opposed to a terminal
> probably won't see the message about x-select-enable-clipboard-manager.
> Could you not print "Attempting to contact clipboard manager..."
> in Emacs before it starts doing whatever it does?
>
> 4) The CLIPBOARD_MANAGER arg of x-selection-exists-p isn't documented.

I've fixed these in trunk.  Thanks.

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