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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
To: 31097@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31097: 27.0.50; Interprogram paste is destructively modified
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2018 16:09:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fu45loow.fsf@tcd.ie> (raw)

Consider the following case:

(defvar my-paste '("foo" "bar"))
(defun my-paste () my-paste)
(setq interprogram-paste-function #'my-paste)

my-paste           ; => ("foo" "bar")
(current-kill 0 t) ; => "foo"
my-paste           ; => ("foo")

This is clearly a contrived use of interprogram-paste-function, but IMO
functions ought not needlessly make destructive changes to non-internal
values not known to be newly created.

Patch to follow in case others share my opinion.

Thanks,

-- 
Basil

In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2018-04-08 built on thunk
Repository revision: 8df23a82042fa7dbaaa4377bc376d705595b073f
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11906000
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid

Configured features:
XAW3D XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS
NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB
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             reply	other threads:[~2018-04-08 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-08 15:09 Basil L. Contovounesios [this message]
2018-04-08 15:18 ` bug#31097: 27.0.50; Interprogram paste is destructively modified Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-04-12 23:35   ` Noam Postavsky
2018-04-13 11:56     ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-04-14  6:11       ` Noam Postavsky

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