From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problem in pasting from an X-application into emacs 21 Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:21:04 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <84lm3bas8v.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038677310 21942 80.91.224.249 (30 Nov 2002 17:28:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 17:28:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18IBPn-0005hX-00 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:28:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18IBO9-0000KG-00; Sat, 30 Nov 2002 12:26:45 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stueberl.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd951f5b7.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951f5b7.dip.t-dialin.net (217.81.245.183) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1038676865 26634526 217.81.245.183 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NW0+JbKTmbCgf1mAGp7Lcoq0OZI= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:107614 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4166 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4166 "Howard E. Haber" writes: > I highlight the text in Window #1, and then attempt to paste it in my emacs > window (either with C-y or the middle mouse button). Sometimes it works and > sometimes it doesn't. When it does not work, what gets pasted in the emacs > window is text from some previous paste within the emacs window. > > Has anyone ever encountered this? What is maddening is that when I test it > out with fresh windows, it works properly for a while. But then it doesn't. > What is going on? Nothing in the manual that I can see indicates why this > might be happening. Compare the value of the variables interprogram-cut-function and interprogram-paste-function when it works and when it doesn't work. Are they different? C-h v tells you the value of a variable. -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)