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bug#6637: 24.0.50; kill ring being seriously polluted
From: |
Thierry Volpiatto |
Subject: |
bug#6637: 24.0.50; kill ring being seriously polluted |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:05:57 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net> writes:
> On 15/07/10 09:50, Tim Van Holder wrote:
>>
>> With the current BZR head, the kill ring seems to be seriously
>> broken, at least in conjunction with pc-selection-mode.
>> It seems that whenever I mark a region (using shift + arrow keys), the
>> contents of that region go into the kill ring, and when I enter text to
>> replace that region, the first character (and only the first character)
>> goes into the kill ring.
>> This seriously breaks some common activities, i.e. copying a piece of
>> code, then pasting it several times, adjusting those parts that need
>> adjusting.
>> Is there an option to disable this less-than-desirable "functionality"
>> until the behaviour is returned to sanity? If not, I suppose I can
>> handle a few extra M-y presses for a while, but I'd like to see this
>> fixed as soon as possible.
>>
>
> [Well, please bear in mind you're running unstable development code
> if you're running bzr head rather than a release AFAIU]
>
> If you just want shift-arrow selection, note that that has worked in
> emacs anyway for a while, without pc-selection-mode turned on as such.
> But since your bug was for the delete-selection part, well, I guess
> that's less than satisfactory.
>
> The problem is likely in delete-selection-mode (which
> pc-selection-mode uses underneath) or some of the code it calls in
> simple.el:
>
> I was totally expecting this to be related to certain recent changes
> in default selection handling, but breakage happened in my short test
> even with them turned off on X11 emacs on debian. It may/must still
> be related to recent rearrangements, of course, just perhaps not in
> the area I thought.
>
> I for one won't get to look properly at this until the weekend, though
> I'm not the only person about.
That appear even if delete-selection-mode is turned off, to disable that
i use here:
,----
| (setq x-select-enable-clipboard nil)
| (setq interprogram-paste-function nil)
`----
and it seem working fine.
--
Thierry Volpiatto
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- bug#6637: 24.0.50; kill ring being seriously polluted, Tim Van Holder, 2010/07/15
- bug#6637: 24.0.50; kill ring being seriously polluted, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/07/15
- bug#6637: 24.0.50; kill ring being seriously polluted, Chong Yidong, 2010/07/15
- bug#6637: 24.0.50; kill ring being seriously polluted, Tim Van Holder, 2010/07/16
- bug#6637: 24.0.50; kill ring being seriously polluted, Chong Yidong, 2010/07/16
- bug#6637: 24.0.50; kill ring being seriously polluted, Tim Van Holder, 2010/07/17
- bug#6637: 24.0.50; kill ring being seriously polluted, Chong Yidong, 2010/07/17
- bug#6637: 24.0.50; kill ring being seriously polluted, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/07/17
- bug#6637: 24.0.50; kill ring being seriously polluted, Tim Van Holder, 2010/07/19
- bug#6637: 24.0.50; kill ring being seriously polluted, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/07/22
bug#6637: 24.0.50; kill ring being seriously polluted, Angelo Graziosi, 2010/07/16