Mercurial > emacs
changeset 38058:647c8404a670
Document problems with KDE's klipper.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:51:45 +0000 |
| parents | 3d4a43468e1f |
| children | 0b34b024286d |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Jun 15 10:16:29 2001 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Fri Jun 15 10:51:45 2001 +0000 @@ -1019,6 +1019,17 @@ EOF -------------------------------- +* Emacs hangs on KDE when a large portion of text is killed. + +This happens because KDE intercepts the X clipboard and appears not to +notify Emacs properly when it is done. A C-g will not interrupt this: +Emacs will print "Quit", but will continue waiting. After a while, +Emacs will print a message: + + Timed out waiting for property-notify event + +A workaround is to kill the KDE application called `klipper'. + * Emacs compiled with DJGPP for MS-DOS/MS-Windows cannot access files in the directory with the special name `dev' under the root of any drive, e.g. `c:/dev'.