From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: first copy & paste not working Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 10:06:46 -0400 Message-ID: <87wsm89761.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <87ej8lzdwv.fsf@DEBLAP1.BeNet> <874p9g5yut.fsf@DEBLAP1.BeNet> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209996465 15300 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2008 14:07:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 14:07:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Joe Bloggs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 05 16:08:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jt1MJ-0003lO-ON for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 16:08:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35453 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt1Lb-0006Ns-Sq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 10:07:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt1LG-0006NQ-Qw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 10:06:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt1LF-0006ND-UX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 10:06:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43874 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jt1LF-0006NA-SC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 10:06:57 -0400 Original-Received: from phsmgmx10.partners.org ([155.52.251.101]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jt1LF-0007gM-F8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 10:06:57 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,437,1204520400"; d="scan'208";a="138989956" Original-Received: from phsxcon5.mgh.harvard.edu (HELO PHSXCON5.partners.org) ([132.183.130.38]) by phsmgmx10.partners.org with ESMTP; 05 May 2008 10:06:49 -0400 Original-Received: from PHSXMB8.partners.org ([170.223.201.47]) by PHSXCON5.partners.org with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 5 May 2008 10:06:49 -0400 Original-Received: from W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu.partners.org ([132.183.29.121]) by PHSXMB8.partners.org with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 5 May 2008 10:06:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <874p9g5yut.fsf@DEBLAP1.BeNet> (Joe Bloggs's message of "Fri, 02 May 2008 19:45:30 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 05 May 2008 14:06:48.0867 (UTC) FILETIME=[428B5730:01C8AEB9] X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53771 Archived-At: Joe Bloggs writes: > jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes: > >> Joe Bloggs writes: >> >>> I can only yank my emacs text if I repeat the emacs cut/copy, >>> othewise it just keeps yanking the external text. Can anyone help? >> Hi Joe, good to see you again. >> Which Emacs version and operating system are you using (specifically >> which Unix?)? > > Emacs 21.4a on Debian etch, which is the latest version in the etch > repository. A friend of mine advised me, after I found the latest Emacs in Debian was 21.4, that adding the unstable repositories, and/or Ubuntu repositories is a must for using up-to-date software on Debian. Any Debian users like to comment? > Couldn't find anything newer in backports, and don't really want to > build one myself as it could be more hassle than it's worth. Then allow me to correct you: building Emacs from CVS is a piece-of-cake. (equal '(build emacs-from-cvs) 'piece-of-cake) => t I only had to learn how to do it once, and then I set up building a Slackware package as a cron job; every week I have a brand new Emacs from CVS waiting for me on Monday. make bootstrap make make install and Emacs does the rest. Check out http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsFromCVS Joel -- Joel J. 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