Re: remote xemacs and selection problem (using XWin -clipboard)

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Kris,

A lot of people think that that question is sort of like, "Hey, this 
tire is flat, can you change it?" when it is really more like asking, 
"Wow, if we could go to Mars, that would be great.  Have the ship built 
by next weekend."

It is not easy to fix.  It is a design issue.  I have already spent over 
40 hours investigating alternatives.  It would probably take me another 
10 to 40 hours to finish up, but I haven't got the time now.  I posted 
my code for others to inspect, but no one ever did.

For more information, please see the following thread:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-06/msg00199.html


Thanks for your interest in Cygwin/XFree86,

Harold

Kris Thielemans wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have a problem running XEmacs remotely. When I press ctrl-space, I do get
> 'mark set', but when I then press Ctrl-w to cut something, I get 'The region
> is not active now'. I have exactly the same when selecting a region with the
> mouse. The selection immediately disappears (presumably because of the
> clipboard functionality). Pressing ctrl-w then gives the above message.
>
> The problem disappears when I remove the -clipboard option from Xwin.
> However, even with this option, I do not have this problem when I use
> cygwin's emacs (locally).
>
> If I do not use -clipboard, but start xwinclip, the problem reappears.
>
> The problem does not occur in xemacs -nw, so it is definitely X related.
>
> I'm running xemacs 21.4 on debian if that matters. (I'm using ssh -X remote)
>
> $ cygcheck -c XFree86-xserv
> Cygwin Package Information
> Package              Version
> XFree86-xserv        4.3.0-5
>
>
> Kris Thielemans
> (kris.thielemans <at> imperial.ac.uk)
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>
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