Re: fucked in gnus

try this patch and see if it fixes things. alastair, it looks like the selection code needs more work -- it's doing all these bizarre weird things relating to the x code, and this needs a bit of a rethink. the tricky thing with the x code is that the selection data can be one of three types: 8, 16, or 32 bit data; under windows, we only have 8-bit data. 16 and 32-bit data automatically gets byte-swapped as necessary to deal with endian-ness issues, necessary because clients on different architectures might request data from the same X server. the c code tries to support this by allowing conses of 16-bit values [because xemacs lisp integers are less than 32 bits] and vectors of numbers etc. to pass long 32-bit or 16-bit data. imho this is reasonable but there's also lots of other crap going on. what i think you should do is come up with a clean and simple interface for converting 16 and 32 bit data in and out, document it, and fix up the C code so it does this and no more. [and fix the lisp code to correspond] you should also make the x code do the proper convert calls if possible. btw i do my testing under X using cygwin and a windows-based x server such as MiX. i can give you more info on this if you want; otherwise, you can probably do virtually all the testing without actually needing a setup like this. ben Index: select.c =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs/src/Attic/select.c,v retrieving revision 1.1.2.3 diff -u -r1.1.2.3 select.c --- select.c 2000/07/13 09:06:35 1.1.2.3 +++ select.c 2000/07/14 03:40:55 ＠＠ -133,8 +133,10 ＠＠ /* We couldn't. Try for a generic type instead. */ value = assq_no_quit (target_type, Qnil); - - return convert_selection (selection_symbol, value, target_type, 0); + + /* #### URK! This should convert out AND in, and we shouldn't + be doing all this bizarre frobbing in the C code. */ + return convert_selection (selection_symbol, value, target_type, 1); } return Qnil; Michael Harnois wrote: -- Ben In order to save my hands, I am cutting back on my mail. I also write as succinctly as possible -- please don't be offended. If you send me mail, you _will_ get a response, but please be patient, especially for XEmacs-related mail. If you need an immediate response and it is not apparent in your message, please say so. Thanks for your understanding. See also http://www.666.com/ben/chronic-pain/