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- To: submit@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: emacs20: X selection misbehavior
- From: itz@speakeasy.org (Ian Zimmerman)
- Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 20:57:07 -0700
- Message-id: <E17gdf9-0001ro-00@kronstadt.homeunix.net>
Package: emacs20
Version: 20.7-10.1
Severity: normal
This is something that has bothered me a long time before I finally decided
to file a report, so I am quite sure there is a problem, though I don't
really know if it is in emacs or some other piece of the puzzle.
Sometimes when I select a piece of text in another program (xterm or tkman
or mozilla are examples, but it seems it can happen with any program) I am
unable to paste the selection into emacs. Instead, doing the "yank"
command in emacs always pastes emacs' last "kill". When I do
"Alt-: (x-get-selection-internal 'PRIMARY 'STRING)" the result is also
emacs' last kill, even though I just selected something in xterm a second
before that. And once this happens, is seems impossible to get the right
behavior in that session of emacs - the only way to set it right is to
quit emacs and restart it.
It is far from consistent - it happens to me maybe once a week, and I am
an emacs zealot, meaning I do almost everything with it. But when it
happens it is annoying to no end.
-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Kernel Version: Linux kronstadt 2.4.19 #2 Sat Aug 17 10:14:36 PDT 2002 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages emacs20 depends on:
ii dpkg 1.10 Package maintenance system for Debian
ii emacsen-common 1.4.13 Common facilities for all emacsen.
ii libc6 2.2.5-11.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii liblockfile1 1.03 NFS-safe locking library, includes dotlockfi
ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a- Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii libxaw7 4.1.0-6 X Athena widget set library
ii xlibs 4.1.0-5 X Window System client libraries
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Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A.
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