bug#64423: 29.0.92; save-interprogram-paste-before-kill doesn't prevent streaming large selections

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Org mode has asynchronous processing since before threads were
>> introduced, using idle timers.
>
> That timers in Emacs work is small wonder.
>
> The point of threads, AFAIU, was to allow doing the same stuff as we
> do with timers, but with significantly less hair on the Lisp level.

Yup. That's my point - thread can be useful, especially if there is also
some boilerplate code provided by Emacs that makes threads less blocking
(read: trigger less frequently, and stopping not after the user attempts
to trigger command loop).

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