From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian Adkins Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can't paste from files with .arc extension Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 06:07:25 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <397b3f92-b993-4ea0-9f01-582b96e269dd@34g2000hsz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204900907 19006 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2008 14:41:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 14:41:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 07 15:42:13 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 1JXdlr-0001Rw-3n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:42:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXdlJ-0003zT-AA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:41:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.209.204.112 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1204898845 7702 127.0.0.1 (7 Mar 2008 14:07:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 14:07:25 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=68.209.204.112; posting-account=Uust-woAAAAfaTc8iUxK0_NIe578kqTZ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080207 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.12, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156751 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:52124 Archived-At: On Mar 7, 9:00 am, Brian Adkins wrote: > This seems like a strange problem to me. For some reason, I can't > select portions of a file with the mouse and paste it in another > window, if the file in question has a .arc extension. > > I've been experimenting with Paul Graham's Arc language which as .arc > extensions. I originally thought it might have something to do with > the arc-mode.el major mode file I've been using for Arc code, but I've > turned that off, so the files are loaded in Fundamental mode. > > I also thought it could be a file encoding issue, but if I copy the > file to a file with a different extension (.scm for example), I can > open the file and copy/paste with the mouse just fine. If I then copy > the file to a different file with a .arc extension, copy/paste is > broken again. > > I can copy/paste within emacs fine, I just can't paste into another > application. > > Can anyone think of why emacs might disable pasting to another window > for files with .arc extensions? FYI - I'm using emacs 23 built from source on Ubuntu Linux 7.10