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emacs kill-ring-save question
Hello,

We've just upgraded to a newer version of emacs (21.3.1) and I've noticed something pretty annoying... Whenever you do a kill-ring-save, the cursor pops to where the mark was set, pauses a second, then pops back again.

This obviously doesn't sound like very much, but it really slows things down if you're running inside a macro. A second pause per iteration of the macro will make running the macro 1000 times take 1000 seconds!

Has anyone ever seen this and more to the point, know how to prevent it?

Cheers
Iain
 
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kill

kill(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   kill(1)

Name
       kill - send a signal to a process

Syntax
       kill [-sig] processid...
       kill -l

Description
       The command sends the TERM (terminate, 15) signal to the specified processes.  If a signal name or number preceded by `-' is given as first
       argument, that signal is sent instead of terminate.  For further information, see

       The terminate signal kills processes that do not catch the signal; `kill -9 ...' is a sure kill, as the KILL (9) signal cannot  be  caught.
       By convention, if process number 0 is specified, all members in the process group (that is, processes resulting from the current login) are
       signaled.  This works only if you use and not if you use To kill a process it must either belong to you or you must be superuser.

       The process number of an asynchronous process started with `&' is reported by the shell.  Process numbers can also be  found  by  using	It
       allows job specifiers ``%...''  so process ID's are not as often used as arguments.  See for details.

Options
       -l   Lists  signal  names.  The signal names are listed by `kill -l', and are as given in /usr/include/signal.h, stripped of the common SIG
	    prefix.

See Also
       csh(1), ps(1), kill(2), sigvec(2)

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