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bug#16315: Slow paste
From: |
Perry Smith |
Subject: |
bug#16315: Slow paste |
Date: |
Sun, 6 Dec 2020 17:15:51 -0600 |
I no longer work as the initial bug report said. I’m not using AIX, RealVNC,
nor JollysFastVNC. The original report had a change which I don’t recall
not working but if I’m the only person reporting the issue, I would just close
it and leave sleeping dogs lie.
> On Dec 6, 2020, at 9:11 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>
> Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> When I copy from a Mac window and paste into emacs (yank), there is a
>> long delay. When I started seriously testing, it was always 5 seconds
>> but I have memories that sometimes it was much longer. I'm calling
>> these memories "false" at this point.
>
> [...]
>
>> and then I see the text show up in the emacs window. I *think* what
>> is "wrong" here is in this case, get_input_pending is actually pulling
>> the text out and via the SelectionNotify handler placing the text into
>> reading_selection_reply but then returns zero because, at that point
>> in time, there is no input to be read. Thus this if test, is not
>> true:
>>
>> if ((read_kbd || !NILP (wait_for_cell))
>> && detect_input_pending ())
>>
>> I'm thinking that after detect_input_pending is called in
>> wait_reading_process_output, another two lines like this:
>>
>> if (! NILP (wait_for_cell) && ! NILP (XCAR (wait_for_cell)))
>> break;
>>
>> should be added before the if (!no_avail) line (around line 4612 in
>> the copy I am looking at.
>>
>> I made this change in my copy and so far, it seems to work.
>
> (This bug report unfortunately got no response at the time.)
>
> The wait_reading_process_output function has changed a bit over the
> years since this was first reported. Are you still seeing this issue in
> more recent Emacs versions?
>
> If so, could you include a proposed patch?
>
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