From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8400: 24.0.50; Strange selection behavior in Gnus Article buffer Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:27:18 +0100 Message-ID: <4D99D546.6080607@harpegolden.net> References: <83pqp3w65h.fsf@gnu.org> <83mxk7vyqi.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301930342 5909 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2011 15:19:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 15:19:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Stephen Berman , Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 04 17:18:58 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6lYJ-0007cK-ML for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:27:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6kkT-0001XG-RB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:27:28 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:57105) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6kkT-0001X3-O3; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:27:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.55.209] (87-198-55-209.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.55.209]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C48EE683D9; Mon, 4 Apr 2011 15:27:19 +0100 (IST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110307 Icedove/3.0.11 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:28:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:45621 Archived-At: On 04/04/11 12:51, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen >> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug >> Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:24:55 +0200 >> Mail-Copies-To: never >> >> Eli Zaretskii writes: >> >>> So what is the bug? that C-y gave you PRIMARY or that it was different >>> from the kill ring and the clipboard? >> >> The bug is that `C-y' gives me a text I didn't `M-w'. > > That's the documented effect of setting x-select-enable-primary to a > non-nil value, AFAIK. I think we can close this bug, then. > Yeah. If x-select-enable-primary is non-nil, then as well as C-y getting from primary, C-w/M-w also set primary. However, if you've also asked for primary to be set by some other means and used those other means, then C-y will sometimes quite correctly give you the text from primary that got there by means other than M-w. I still haven't quite convinced myself that the text Stephen Berman was getting with his mix of settings was the expected one even given those settings. But on the whole, I think the main bug here was the docs bug.