On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 08:46:55PM +0200, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 07:35:27PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Any idea why this is
> 
> The X selection mechanism. The application owning the selection is sent
> a request to send us the contents of the selection and convert them to a
> suitable format. We then should eventually receive an event indicating 
> that the contents are available. Obviously we can't wait for that in
> paste().

It seems reasonable to me to wait for the application to complete the
request as long as the user can interrupt this.
How am i obviously wrong :)

ingo

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