Bug#758633: xterm: exec-formatted, exec-selectable, insert-formatted, insert-selectable do not work correctly

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

Package: xterm
Version: 308-1
Severity: normal

The exec-formatted, exec-selectable, insert-formatted,
insert-selectable features do not work correctly.

Well, with:

  Meta<Btn1Down>: exec-formatted("browser %s", PRIMARY)

works correctly when the PRIMARY selection belongs to the current
xterm, but if it belongs to another process, the selection is pasted
in the current xterm and %s contains the empty string.

Moreover, insert-formatted behaves strangely (it could be related to
the above problem), and the *-selectable ones do not seem to have any
effect, e.g. with

  Meta<Btn1Down>: exec-selectable("browser %s", word)

or

  Meta<Btn1Down>: exec-selectable("browser %s", regex [^ ]*)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6           2.19-9
ii  libfontconfig1  2.11.0-6
ii  libice6         2:1.0.9-1
ii  libtinfo5       5.9+20140712-2
ii  libutempter0    1.1.5-4
ii  libx11-6        2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxaw7         2:1.0.12-2
ii  libxft2         2.3.2-1
ii  libxmu6         2:1.1.2-1
ii  libxpm4         1:3.5.11-1
ii  libxt6          1:1.1.4-1
ii  xbitmaps        1.1.1-2

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  x11-utils  7.7+2

Versions of packages xterm suggests:
pn  xfonts-cyrillic  <none>

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