From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Crawford, Christopher" <cbcraw2@g.uky.edu>
Cc: 41519@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41519: 26.3; transient-mark-mode + WSL + vcxsrv clobbers clipboard
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 17:36:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83blmcw086.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANzRthq_OuEZf5skgA1yuyg2AgXFrpiH8N7cDFatRi=ZHMspSA@mail.gmail.com> (cbcraw2@g.uky.edu)
> From: "Crawford, Christopher" <cbcraw2@g.uky.edu>
> Date: Sun, 24 May 2020 23:54:44 -0400
>
> In a fresh 'emacs -q',
> whenever I highlight text with the mouse, or S-<right>, or C-spc <right?, etc, emacs copies the text into the
> Windows clipboard, and I can't disable it. This means that I cannot highlight text in Emacs and replace it
> with text previously copied from a Windows program. I'm running on Ubuntu 18.04 on WSL using VcXsrv.
I don't think this is an Emacs bug. Emacs puts the selected text into
the X selection; I'm guessing that some WSL agent then copies that
selection into the Windows clipboard. This doesn't happen when
running on Windows natively.
> I've tried every combination of
> transient-mark-mode
> shift-selection-mode
> save-interprogram-paste-before-kill
> with no success.
> If I disable select-enable-clipboard , it won't paste from the clipboard,
> and setting select-enable-primary also doesn't seem to matter.
Did you try setting select-active-regions to nil?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-25 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-25 3:54 bug#41519: 26.3; transient-mark-mode + WSL + vcxsrv clobbers clipboard Crawford, Christopher
2020-05-25 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-05-25 21:49 ` Crawford, Christopher
2020-05-26 2:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-26 6:28 ` Crawford, Christopher
2020-05-26 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
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