Re: Bug in 26.1 related to X clipboard and `yank'?

[Brett Gilio]

Joseph Mingrone writes:

> Hello,
>
> Here is a recipe that almost but not always reproduces the 
> potential
> bug.
>
> ;; Start a server and open a client frame
> 1. emacs -Q  --daemon
> 2. emacsclient -nc
> ;; Open a second Emacs (not client/daemon)
> 3. emacs -Q
> 4. From some application other than Emacs, copy text to the X 
> clipboard.
> 5. Yank the text from the clipboard somewhere in the client 
> frame (this works).
> 6. Add some text somewhere in the second Emacs frame and run 
> `kill-ring-save' to put it on the X clipboard.
> 7. ** Ruining `yank' in the client frame does not yank the text 
> on the X clipboard. **
>
> I do not recall this being a problem in previous versions, but I 
> cannot
> say for certain.  Is this bug-report worthy?
>
> Joseph

Hi Joseph,

Are you getting any errors or messages after you yank the text 
with the
second client open?

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Brett M. Gilio
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