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From: | David De La Harpe Golden |
Subject: | bug#6774: Cut and paste with C-w/mouse-2 not working? |
Date: | Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:12:17 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100620 Icedove/3.0.5 |
On 01/08/10 23:04, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
It seems that with recent trunk sources (also with the last, rev.100958), cutting with C-w and then pasting with mouse-2 does not work. To reproduce: 1. emacs -Q & 2. In the 'scratch' buffer double click on some text, 'buffer', for example. 3. Now cut it: C-w 4. Go to the bottom of the buffer and paste with mouse-2: empty! I can paste only with C-y. If at step 3. I use M-w (Copy), then pasting with mouse-2 works.
Yes, there's a problem here - I guess emacs is keeping primary bound to a span that's become zero-length. Again.
N.B. your case ideally would work in emacs much like in KDE - but emacs still has teething problems and sometimes manages to make primary a zero-length string.[this is already "fixed" in the horrible selx branch]
For example, on Kubuntu, one can cut with C-x and the paste with mouse-2 (Konqueror, Kate,...)
Not exactly - not quite what's really going on. There's a spec for how this is supposed to work, and KDE follows it.*
When you have _selected_ the text in KDE before hitting C-x, it is made available as the "primary" x11 selection (referred to as "the selection" in klipper*)
C-x makes the text available as the CLIPBOARD x11 selection while removing it from the body of the document. (and it's still available on PRIMARY too, where emacs fails).
mouse-2 inserts what's in PRIMARY in KDE.So in KDE, try selecting more/different text, _without_ hitting C-x or C-c. This will change only PRIMARY.
Hitting mouse-2 again will insert the _new_ PRIMARY.Then hitting C-v will insert the old CLIPBOARD. To update the clipboard you always have to C-x or C-c.
(* though the situation is further complicated by klipper, the KDE clipboard daemon, which can be configured to do various strange things in this area, I mean KDE's out-of-box defaults).
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