From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: mouse-save-then-kill expects kill-ring to be a consp Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:47:31 -0600 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <41519E93.4060706@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095868074 4467 80.91.229.6 (22 Sep 2004 15:47:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:47:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 22 17:47:46 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CA9LN-0000WK-00 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:47:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CA9RJ-0000zw-Tc for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CA9RI-0000zm-5N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:53:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CA9RF-0000zR-1O for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:53:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CA9RE-0000zH-TL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:53:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [216.168.1.22] (helo=trinity.supernews.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CA9LC-00023B-U6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 11:47:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.1.2]) by trinity.supernews.net with esmtp (Exim 4.42 (FreeBSD)) id 1CA9LB-000Bff-RC for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:47:34 +0000 Original-Received: by Mail.FU-Berlin.DE (Exim 4.42) from curry.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.10.36]) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org with esmtp id <1CA9L4-000B7S-QC>; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:47:26 +0200 Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.uni-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:47:26 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 19 X-Orig-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de zhFb2MoQsw2luiUGKFhFpg5aVwEAPyUC5OtoDnBQQ2NzfpobI= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list 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.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:9058 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:9058 Drew Adams wrote: > I don't know if this is still a bug in Emacs 21; I just checked the code > quickly (didn't test), but it was a bug in Emacs 20: It looks like the bug is still present in Emacs 21.3 to me as well. > Initially, the kill-ring is nil, and mouse-save-then-kill expects it to > be a consp. I fixed this for myself in Emacs 20 this way: (unless > kill-ring (kill-new "")) Why doesn't kill.el use ring.el, like this: (defcustom kill-ring-max ...) (defcustom kill-ring (make-ring kill-ring-max) ...) -- Kevin Rodgers