Re: Copy and paste from Emacs 29 to Thunderbird doesn’t work

[Po Lu]

Tobias Bading <tbading@web.de> writes:

> Hi.
>
> I think I discovered a new kind of bug. It’s not like a heisenbug that
> tries to prevent people from studying it properly — this one tries to
> prevent being *reported*! XD
>
> When I was done composing my last mail in Emacs 29
> (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-04/msg00771.html),
> I tried to copy and paste the text into Thunderbird. Emphasis on trying.
> C-v didn’t work. Nothing happened. Double-clicked just a single word in
> Emacs, C-v in Thunderbird… nope, nothing. Clicked into Thunderbird’s
> ‘Subject’ field and pressed C-v… now I see my copied word! What the f…?
>
> Tried the same in Emacs 26 — no problems.
>
> After installing xclip and starting to wonder about the bazillion different
> selection formats, I wasn’t really in the mood for reading entire books
> about the X11 primary selection and clipboard. So I simply grep’d the
> sources for “OWNER_OS” because I have no idea why anyone would want to
> associate the operating system’s type with a selection. That led to
> selection-converter-alist in select.el.
>
> Long story short, replacing Emacs 29’s selection-converter-alist with the
> one from Emacs 26 seems to fix the problem, i.e.:

This is not a solution, but would you please send this to
bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org instead?

My suspicion is that Thunderbird asks for a target it shouldn't have.
Likely text/plain.