From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Michael L. Dowling" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29357: Cut and paste problems on Linux on a text virtual console no longer works Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 21:36:24 +0200 Message-ID: <20200816193624.GB3196@moocow> References: <20200815085256.65438.qmail@mail.muc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10819"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Alan Mackenzie , 29357@debbugs.gnu.org To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 16 21:37:14 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1k7OSv-0002jR-Ep for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2020 21:37:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38778 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k7OSu-0005Ob-GA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2020 15:37:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34642) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k7OSk-0005OL-91 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2020 15:37:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:47024) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1k7OSj-00062u-Uu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2020 15:37:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k7OSj-0008EC-Sp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2020 15:37:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Dr. Michael L. Dowling" Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2020 19:37:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 29357 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 29357-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B29357.159760658931583 (code B ref 29357); Sun, 16 Aug 2020 19:37:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 29357) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Aug 2020 19:36:29 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58570 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k7OSD-0008DL-AT for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2020 15:36:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout01.t-online.de ([194.25.134.80]:41592) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1k7OSB-0008DD-KA for 29357@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2020 15:36:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fwd10.aul.t-online.de (fwd10.aul.t-online.de [172.20.26.152]) by mailout01.t-online.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 1BFA342B9E18; Sun, 16 Aug 2020 21:36:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from moocow (VsHRKUZdZhoBGc5C0YWMVoxRVUz-cqznXtihA5p2SVlTdBfYqwtKDrf0rcQsAeggv9@[87.164.78.156]) by fwd10.t-online.de with (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) esmtp id 1k7OS9-45lOHg0; Sun, 16 Aug 2020 21:36:25 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organisation: Private Abode of Mike and Cornelia Dowling X-ID: VsHRKUZdZhoBGc5C0YWMVoxRVUz-cqznXtihA5p2SVlTdBfYqwtKDrf0rcQsAeggv9 X-TOI-EXPURGATEID: 150726::1597606585-0000ABB5-880CCAAC/0/0 CLEAN NORMAL X-TOI-MSGID: 783fb010-594b-4c62-89f3-4e3e64146335 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:185342 Archived-At: On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 08:46:40AM -0700, Stefan Kangas wrote: > > There are several annoyances with this way of working - if you've got > > side-by-side windows, you've really got to get rid of all but the > > pertinent window before being able to mark text with the mouse; when you > > yank text in with the middle button, linefeeds misbehave, giving > > indentation where none is wanted. For all that, having GPM is better > > than not having it. > > This is very useful information, thank you. If I understand you > correctly, this is a limitation in GPM, and not in Emacs. Maybe some > interested party could report this as a feature request to GPM. > > BTW, maybe someone could test and see if this works with some other > program that also splits the display to see if it has the same problem. If I can be of any further assistance I would be willing to try, but I'd need somebody to suggest how. > I suppose that means that this bug should be closed? Or is there > anything more we should do? I had come to the conclusion that I was one of the last die-hard Linux/text-mode/command line users. Were that to be the case, it would be unreasonable of me to expect people to work to fix it. But apparently I'm not the last die-hard user. But then, why have others not also made bug reports? This is a very old bug report. Since nobody reacted to it, I concluded that nobody was using text-mode. Then truecrypt stopped development, so I adopted veracrypt instead. It worked fine, except in text mode it yielded error messages from a graphics library. Since it nevertheless worked, I did not make a bug report. I expected somebody would eventually fix it, but nobody did, until a few weeks ago, years later. But that reinforced my conclusion that text-mode was not being used. If I can help in any way, please let me know. I personally have not noticed any other strange behavious of GPM, but, with a pointer or two, I could investigate this. Cheers, Mike -- Dr. Michael L. Dowling Gaußstr. 27 38106 Braunschweig Germany