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Re: Pasting from XEmacs causes nastyness when pasting more than 256K

From: Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Pasting from XEmacs causes nastyness when pasting more than 256K
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 01:56:37 +0100
Cc: sxemacs-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx, xemacs-beta@xxxxxxxxxx
 Ar an cúigiú lá déag de mí Feabhra, scríobh Esben Mose Hansen: 

 > > I've reproduced the following with my copy of sexy, this is therefore
 > > a bugreport for us.  At least I think so.  It really doesn't surprise
 > > me if XE developers ignore this though.
 > 
 > Actually, I got an indication from Mr. Aidan Kehoe that he would fix
 > this. And many thanks for that!

I’m not keeping to my stated schedule, though, am I ;-) . I have spent a
good bit of this evening working on selection fixes, though. It seems subtly
broken in so many ways--for example, if XEmacs is linked against Motif,
it’ll only ever offer TARGETS, TIMESTAMP, STRING or COMPOUND_TEXT to pass
out, despite paragraphs and paragraphs of Lisp occupied with doing that
better.

 > > If I can find out anything about X programming, I may attempt to fix
 > > this.  If anyone else can, please be my guest.  I'd also like some
 > > pointers about how to learn X (Xt?) programming.
 > 
 > man XLib is a start. 

Also, http://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.4.0/doc/PDF/xlib.pdf . 

 > But normally, programming directly again X(t) isn't worth the bother
 > ... there are many nice toolkits out there (Qt, GTK+, vxwindows and
 > others).

But, unfortunately, their implementations are not that finished on XEmacs,
so there’s a need to learn the X library to finish them. 

 > But unless you are used to hacking XEmacs, XEmacs itself might be a bigger 
 > stumbling block. Even getting that beast to build is a challenge :)

Hmm, I’ve found it one of the more sane OSS projects I’ve built. 

-- 
“Ah come on now Ted, a Volkswagen with a mind of its own, driving all over
the place and going mad, if that’s not scary I don’t know what is.”


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