From: fuzzfiend02148@gmail.com
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16575: Unwanted interaction between Emacs & Oxford English Dictionary
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:35:25 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <208acc01-76fa-4f62-b87a-d02da67437d5@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.12994.1390878506.10748.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
On Monday, January 27, 2014 10:06:59 PM UTC-5, Joe Fineman wrote:
> I use GNU Emacs 24.3 with Cygwin 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) under Windows XP
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> Professional Service Pack 3 Build 2600. For many years I have been
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> using the CD-ROM Oxford English Dictionary, Version 3.1. Since
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> December 2012 (at which time I was using Emacs 22.3), the two have
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> interacted in a bizarre way: Whenever the OED and Emacs are both
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> running, if in Emacs I make a deletion, the computer switches to the
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> OED window and attempts to look up the character or string deleted.
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> (That of course is an intolerable distraction and means that I have to
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> kill the OED after each use of it.) This behavior has survived the
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> upgrade from Emacs 22.3 to 24.3. It does not occur with deletions in
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> other software such as Conkeror and Microsoft Word, so I *suppose* it
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> is a peculiarity of Emacs.
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>
>
> Feel free to speculate. %^)
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> --
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> --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net
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>
>
> ||: Wealth, like happiness, is best attained while pursuing :||
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> ||: something else. :||
In case anybody cares, I have found the source of this misbehavior. It is a bug in an OED feature I had been unaware of. The way to make it go away is to click on Options & then unclick "Auto-search from clipboard". Why this feature, with accompanying bug, chose to light on Emacs is not clear to me, but conceivably it has something to do with Emacs & therefore possibly belongs here after all.
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2014-02-20 22:35 ` fuzzfiend02148 [this message]
2014-01-28 3:06 bug#16575: Unwanted interaction between Emacs & Oxford English Dictionary Joe Fineman
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