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In article <EBERSMAN.91Mar12195818@cfmartin.uu.net> ebersman@uunet.uu.net (Paul Ebersman) writes:
>
>I notice that a fair portion of the time, when I use the middle
>button on the mouse to paste, it doesn't show up until I hit some
>keystroke. It hasn't been happening consistently enough to establish a
>real pattern, but it is very annoying.

I have noticed exactly the same thing (and yes, it is annoying).
A posted solution would be really helpful!!

**> jacques

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ebersman%uunet@bywater.UUCP  (Paul Ebersman) writes:

>I notice that a fair portion of the time, when I use the middle
>button on the mouse to paste, it doesn't show up until I hit some
>keystroke. It hasn't been happening consistently enough to establish a
>real pattern, but it is very annoying.
>--
>                   Paul A. Ebersman @ UUNET Communications
>                   uunet!ebersman or ebersman@uunet.uu.net
>       The difference between theory and practice in practice is greater
>           than the difference between theory and practice in theory.

I've seen this bug too.  It seems to be a problem in keyboard.c.
The fix I've applied is as follows:

diff -c ../epoch-dist/src/keyboard.c keyboard.c
*** ../epoch-dist/src/keyboard.c        Fri Feb 22 16:51:45 1991
--- keyboard.c  Fri Feb 22 12:09:12 1991
***************
*** 886,892 ****
        /* if only events and no keys, start over
         * the end of 8 years of clean coding...
         */
!       if (kbd_count < 1) goto get_char_start_over;
      }
  #else
    c = kbd_buffer_get_char ();
--- 889,898 ----
        /* if only events and no keys, start over
         * the end of 8 years of clean coding...
         */
!       if (kbd_count < 1) {
!         DoDsp (0);
!         goto get_char_start_over;
!       }
      }
  #else
    c = kbd_buffer_get_char ();

Perhaps one of the official maintainers could either suggest a better fix,
or incorporate this into patch-3.

- Jim

In article <EBERSMAN.91Mar12195818@cfmartin.uu.net> ebersman@uunet.uu.net (Paul Ebersman) writes:

   I notice that a fair portion of the time, when I use the middle
   button on the mouse to paste, it doesn't show up until I hit some
   keystroke. It hasn't been happening consistently enough to establish a
   real pattern, but it is very annoying.

I've seen this too, and I think only after I applied the 2 official
patches to Epoch 3.2.  I could be wrong about that, though.

This is running under OpenWindows 2.0 on a Sun SparcStation.

Since it only happens every so often, I just hit ^L when I don't see
the results of a paste operation immediately.

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>    I notice that a fair portion of the time, when I use the middle
>    button on the mouse to paste, it doesn't show up until I hit some
>   keystroke. It hasn't been happening consistently enough to establish a
>   real pattern, but it is very annoying.
>
> I've seen this too, and I think only after I applied the 2 official
> patches to Epoch 3.2.  I could be wrong about that, though.

We have the same problem, but I've not yet applied the 2nd official patch (although I've applied some that became part of the 2nd). This is under mwm on P/3maxen. This is, for now, the single most annoying problem with epoch...

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