From Emacs -Q configured with --with-ns, kill some text (e.g. from the *scratch* buffer) and then try and paste it into another program. Notice that it hasn't been copied. This works on the emacs-24 branch. I tried tracking it down and it seems to be due to STRINGP (data) failing on line 369 of src/nsselect.m. I didn't try debugging further to see _why_ it was failing. I also did not try bisecting it, but I can do that if desired. Thanks, Ivan In GNU Emacs 25.0.50.5 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS appkit-1265.21 Version 10.9.5 (Build 13F34)) of 2014-10-22 on iandrus-osx Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1265 Configured using: `configure --with-ns' Configured features: ACL LIBXML2 ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t Recent input: C-y s-x M-x r e p o r t Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Mark set [5 times] Making completion list... Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message dired format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr mail-utils time-date tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel ns-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process cocoa ns multi-tty emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 77472 5549) (symbols 48 18104 1) (miscs 40 51 163) (strings 32 11980 4326) (string-bytes 1 314371) (vectors 16 9543) (vector-slots 8 383880 9004) (floats 8 61 258) (intervals 56 210 15) (buffers 976 12))