Re: w32-get-clipboard-data

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 01:58:29 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Stephen Coda <stephencoda@googlemail.com>
> 
> On Thursday, 3 September 2015 15:38:38 UTC+1, Eli Zaretskii  wrote:
> > > Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 02:07:39 -0700 (PDT)
> > > From: Stephen Coda <stephencoda@googlemail.com>
> > > 
> > > It also looks as if I can paste when Chrome is not open.
> > 
> > I think that's the reason for the problem, right there.  I'm guessing
> > Chrome has some paste-blocking feature or some clipboard-related
> > feature which you need to customize or even turn off.  (Sorry, I don't
> > use Chrome, so I cannot give you more details.)
> 
> It required adding emacs.exe to a list of things that were allowed to use the clipboard while chrome was open. Since chrome is a connection to the internet and cutting and pasting from that place constitutes a potential security risk. I think that's the reason, our sys admin sorted the setting  for me. 

Thanks for letting us know.  Is it possible for you to tell more
details about how to add Emacs to that list?  I'd like to put the
problem and the solution into Emacs's PROBLEMS file.