From: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
To: Tim Van Holder <tim.vanholder@gmail.com>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, 6637@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6637: 24.0.50; kill ring being seriously polluted
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:53:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C41EE02.2010204@harpegolden.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim6hVaSeBHmAGMiLpxCrp8qMdqP4KiaWYtxS0Ox@mail.gmail.com>
On 17/07/10 16:32, Tim Van Holder wrote:
> The following is something I do a lot as part of code editing:
> 1) copy/kill something
> 2) yank the copied/kill text
> 3) select certain portions and replace them as needed for that copy
> 4) go back to step 2) if needed
> The new behaviour interferes with this (and I don't see how it can do
> anything but interfere when pc-selection-mode is active).
>
Firstly (and this may be premature to mention (sorry) given there are
more known unresolved issues) but N.B. there have been some even more
recent changes addressing some problems with the recent changes, please
try starting from emacs -Q with an emacs trunk build >= rev. 100838 and
see if the problems you are having persist. Unfortunately, there are
known issues even in that revision, but they will (probably) be more
subtle. There is effort ongoing to address them.
But as Chong just said, that's too vague to reproduce an issue from.
I do realise it's a drag to write concrete steps out in the detail
really required - but it's pretty necessary for adequate repeatability,
in this area small details matter.
Ideally (and I acknowledge it is time consuming), you would start from
emacs -Q with a known test string (say the initial ";; This buffer is
for..." or "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."), and describe
the keystrokes and mouse clicks and point and mouse movements right down
to which letters the point and mouse are on, the results of the
operations, and the results you expected if they vary.
It is also possible there are Cygwin/X specific issues that you are
seeing but the rest of us on other X servers aren't. Eyeing its
changelog (I personally don't have access to a windows box to test on),
it likely has somewhat hairy handling of integration with the w32
clipboard. OTOH, said handling appears to be expecting now-conventional
X11 app selection interaction behaviour, so making emacs adopt that
behaviour by default shouldn't cause any gross problems (though will
inevitably be somewhat different to emacs' historical default behaviour).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-17 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-15 8:50 bug#6637: 24.0.50; kill ring being seriously polluted Tim Van Holder
2010-07-15 9:55 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-07-15 10:05 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2010-07-15 13:35 ` Tim Van Holder
2010-07-15 14:03 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-16 9:07 ` Tim Van Holder
2010-07-16 15:57 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-17 15:32 ` Tim Van Holder
2010-07-17 15:57 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-17 17:53 ` David De La Harpe Golden [this message]
2010-07-19 8:22 ` Tim Van Holder
2010-07-22 23:26 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-07-16 23:59 ` Angelo Graziosi
2010-07-17 2:37 ` Chong Yidong
2010-07-17 8:37 ` Angelo Graziosi
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