Re: Copy Region Hangs
"Anthony V. Carrillo" <avc(a)cadr.amis.com> writes:
Is there a way to still have the region highlight while selecting?
Anthony V. Carrillo writes:
> Thank you, I will give it a try.
> Vin Shelton writes:
> >
> > "Anthony V. Carrillo" <kma(a)cadr.amis.com> writes:
> > > My colleagues and I receive very large text files, and we continue to
> > > have a problem of Xemacs freezing when highlight a large and use M-w
> > > to copy the region.
> > >
> > > Is there something I can tweak to keep this from happening?
> >
> > This is an unfortunate and known issue.
> >
> > (setq zmacs-regions nil)
> >
> > will work around the problem, I believe.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Vin Shelton
> >
> >
Under X, if you select with the mouse, the region will be highlighted,
regardless of the state of zmacs-regions. But if you want to
highlight with the keyboard, (setq zmacs-regions t) is AFAIK the only
way to cause the region to be highlighted. BTW, the problem is
related to X - in 'xemacs -nw', I can highlight a large block of text
(300,000 characters) and delete it with zmacs-region set to t and not
have a problem.
See http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200112/msg00367.html
for a little more data.
- Vin