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Re: [itz@speakeasy.org (Ian Zimmerman)] emacs20: X selection misbehavior



Ian Zimmerman <itz@speakeasy.org> writes:

> 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.

Just an idea -- do you use KDE, and in particular Klipper?



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