Re: Strange delays when running remotely

At 11:13 AM 7/2/02 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: So I don't think this is true, and we should probably come to some sort of consensus about what the various problems really are and put it in PROBLEMS. From select-x.c: /* If we already own the clipboard, don't own it again in the Motif way. This might lose in some subtle way, since the timestamp won't be current, but owning the selection on the Motif way does a SHITLOAD of X protocol, and it makes killing text be incredibly slow when using an X terminal. ARRRRGGGHHH!!!! */ [This is the pre-21.4 behavior which was fast but did not honor copy and paste between Motif widgets and XEmacs. The comment is Jamie's AFAIK so this behavior was the default for many years] /* No, this is no good, because then Motif text fields don't bother to look up the new value, and you can't Copy from a buffer, Paste into a text field, then Copy something else from the buffer and paste it into the text field -- it pastes the first thing again. */ [This is the default behavior for 21.4. The comment is Ben's and he made the change in 21.4] && (!owned_p /* Selectively re-enable this because for most users its just too painful - especially over a remote link. */ || x_selection_strict_motif_ownership) [This option was added by me sometime in the 21.4 release cycle to allow users to get back at the pre-21.4 behavior] IMO we should consider making the default nil rather than t. andy