Re: odd xemacs behaviour when marking [SOLVED]

[Bill Stilwell <was@bc.sympatico.ca>]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 07:11:46PM -0800, Bill Stilwell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having trouble with marking in xemacs. The problem is identical in
> both xemacs20 and xemacs21. It does not occur when run on the console,
> only when in X.
> 
> The problem: any attempt to mark/select text, either with the mouse or
> C-<SPC> results in this error:
> 
> unrecognized selection-conversion type: nil, #<INTERNAL EMACS BUG
> (opaque, size=4) 0x84f3570>

Turns out this was a bad interaction with a clipboard program,
gclipper. Once it was closed, no problem.

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