bug#6702: 24.0.50; Can't yank text on Mac OS X

[David De La Harpe Golden]

On 29/07/10 17:20, Magnus Henoch wrote:
> Magnus Henoch<magnus.henoch@gmail.com>  writes:
>
> > Running Emacs from bzr on Mac OS 10.6.4, if I mark some text, save it
> > with M-w, and then try to yank it with C-y, I get the error message
> > 'Quit: "pasteboard doesn't contain valid data"'.  (See keystrokes and
> > message log below.)
> >
> > Also, I can't paste the saved text into another application.  However,
> > if I copy text from another application, I can yank it into Emacs with
> > C-y.
> >
> > Only M-w and C-w seem to be affected; text killed with M-d and C-k can
> > be yanked and pasted.
>
> Correction: I figured out that the nature of the problem is different.
> When I mark a region of text with C-SPC and movement keys, everything
> works fine if I then hit M-w _twice_.  After the first press, the
> highlighting disappears, and after the second press, the cursor briefly
> blinks at the mark, signalling that the text was actually saved.

Hmm. Not that it helps you exactly, but that's actually a bit less 
broken than I thought.  Please note, there are several known issues in 
this area on macosx and other platforms owing to some recent changes to 
defaults.

see e.g. #6677 http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6677

See:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-07/msg01314.html
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6720#20

for instructions on reverting the new behaviour for now if you want to.

I will be looking at the area over this weekend, anyway, on x11/w32/ns.