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* [drew.adams@oracle.com: mouse-2 on menu item yanks into current buffer]
@ 2006-03-06  0:51 Richard Stallman
  2006-03-06  9:16 ` Kim F. Storm
  2006-03-11 13:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2006-03-06  0:51 UTC (permalink / raw)


This does not happen on GNU/Linux, so I think it is a Windows-only bug.

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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Emacs-Pretest-Bug" <emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 20:56:47 -0800
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	charset="iso-8859-1"
Subject: mouse-2 on menu item yanks into current buffer

emacs -q

select some text, so it can be yanked

open a menu-bar menu, and click mouse-2, instead of mouse-1, on any menu
item

The mouse-2 command is executed in the current buffer. In a text
buffer, the copied text is yanked. In dired, the file on the curren
line is opened.

This is a pernicious bug because:

1. It is easy to fall into, especially for newbies.

2. It is easy not to recognize that it has occurred - you must either
   watch the buffer-modified flag in the mode line or the region
   yanked must be big enough to be obvious.

This bug is apparently old - it occurs in Emacs 20 also.


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2005-06-26 on NONIQPC
X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc
(3.3) --cflags -I../../jpeg-6b-3/include -I../../libpng-1.2.8/include -I../.
./tiff-3.6.1-2/include -I../../xpm-nox-4.2.0/include -I../../zlib-1.2.2/incl
ude'



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2006-03-06  0:51 [drew.adams@oracle.com: mouse-2 on menu item yanks into current buffer] Richard Stallman
2006-03-06  9:16 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-03-06 16:21   ` Drew Adams
2006-03-11 13:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-11 14:43   ` Jason Rumney
2006-03-11 16:32     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-03-11 17:28       ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: mouse-2 on menu item yanks into currentbuffer] Drew Adams

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