Re: Slow clipboard performance in 21.1.14

Kevin Oberman wrote: Notes: 1. It doesn't matter whether you're using Motif. The name comes from the fact that the "clipboard" functionality was provided by Motif rather than X itself. Some programs (e.g. XEmacs, xterm) implement the "Motif clipboard" protocol themselves, without requiring Motif. 2. The name is misleading; the variable controls the behaviour of the clipboard, not the selection. 3. Setting it to nil has undesirable side effects, i.e. you can no longer copy from XEmacs to another application using the clipboard. 4. A better solution is to set interprogram-cut-function and interprogram-paste-function to nil. That way, kill and yank operations (C-w, M-w, C-y etc) are purely internal operations, and don't suffer the overhead of doing lots of X protocol. You can still copy to and paste from the clipboard using C-insert (copy-primary-selection) and Sh-insert (yank-clipboard-selection) -- Glynn Clements <glynn.clements(a)virgin.net&gt;