Re: Strange delays when running remotely

Glynn> the data will be automatically "pasted" on every cut. But pasting has not been expensive (at least for "small" pastes), while cuts are always expensive. I thought that (at least for Motif) this was because we always did something like a paste to the clipboard anyway. The comments in select-x.c seem to indicate that there was an attempt to implement a mere assertion of ownership, with the data being transferred only on request, and this didn't work. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py