Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Robin> Tried to kill line. Program stopped responding. Killed
with
Robin> xkill.
Standard Motif breakage; XEmacs is doing things correctly, but the
Motif protocol for using the clipboard just takes a huge amount of X
traffic. I suggest you update to a more recent version of XEmacs, and
look at changing the values of the variables `interprogram-cut-function',
`interprogram-paste-function', and `x-selection-strict-motif-ownership'.
x-selection-strict-motif-ownership is bogus. If you're going to copy
data to another application, you may as well copy the correct data.
The overhead of using the clipboard isn't an issue if you only do it
when you actually want to use the clipboard (and not for the other
99.9% of kill operations which are internal to XEmacs).
Setting interprogram-{cut,paste}-function to their correct values
(i.e. nil) is the correct fix. That will make C-w, M-w, C-y etc
internal to XEmacs; you can still copy between XEmacs and other
applications with C-insert and Sh-insert.
--
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements(a)virgin.net>