From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Brenner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: long-standing set-up errors on upgrade (elimination of x cut buffers) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:10:26 -0700 Message-ID: <201009150110.o8F1AQGX093877@kzsu.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284513043 29977 80.91.229.12 (15 Sep 2010 01:10:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:10:43 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 15 03:10:41 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1OvgWC-0006Z5-O0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:10:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60995 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OvgWC-0000Kq-4a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:10:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41875 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OvgW6-0000JU-CD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:10:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OvgW5-00010u-67 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:10:30 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp2.stanford.edu ([171.67.219.82]:50995 helo=smtp.stanford.edu) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OvgW5-00010k-1P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:10:29 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.stanford.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 1FC02170C49 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:10:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from kzsu.stanford.edu (KZSU-legacy.Stanford.EDU [171.66.118.90]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9461A170C51 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:10:26 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from kzsu.stanford.edu (localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by kzsu.stanford.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o8F1AQGX093877 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 18:10:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doom@kzsu.stanford.edu) X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.2; GNU Emacs 24.0.50 X-Spam: Probability=8%, Report=' BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_1000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_900_999 0, DATE_TZ_NA 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __TO_MALFORMED_2 0, __TO_NO_NAME 0' X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:130164 Archived-At: I see in NEWS "*** Support for X cut buffers has been removed." For some time, I've had this in my emacs init files: (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t) (setq interprogram-paste-function 'x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value) Now, with a recent build of bzr emacs, I see that leading to this error message: current-kill: Symbol's function definition is void: x-cut-buffer-or-selection-value I personally am not actually fussy about the details of how X the clipboard talks to the kill-ring and vice versa. I need there to be a way to do it, but it almost doesn't matter which way it is (e.g. I prefer a yank to snag the current X selection, but if I need to do a Control C first before that will work, I can live with that). But what I do find really disturbing is when stuff I've had in my set-up for years suddenly causes problems because I did an upgrade. (Of late, the gnus emacs team seems to be having trouble with the idea of stable interfaces.)