From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: fuzzfiend02148@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: bug#16575: Unwanted interaction between Emacs & Oxford English Dictionary Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:35:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <208acc01-76fa-4f62-b87a-d02da67437d5@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1392936318 17873 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2014 22:45:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 22:45:18 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 20 23:45:27 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WGcMs-0006Ju-Vz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:45:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41132 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGcMs-0004RR-1E for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:45:22 -0500 X-Received: by 10.180.198.133 with SMTP id jc5mr500629wic.4.1392935726669; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:35:26 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.93.109 with SMTP id c100mr78203qge.16.1392935726326; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:35:26 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!s7no9080625lbd.0!news-out.google.com!le8ni18022lbc.0!nntp.google.com!s7no9080598lbd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=96.233.25.235; posting-account=FS79YgoAAABrtVMnWAbnBULIuoAU8N8G Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 96.233.25.235 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 22:35:26 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.bug:112087 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:45:19 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:85958 Archived-At: 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 >=20 > Professional Service Pack 3 Build 2600. For many years I have been >=20 > using the CD-ROM Oxford English Dictionary, Version 3.1. Since >=20 > December 2012 (at which time I was using Emacs 22.3), the two have >=20 > interacted in a bizarre way: Whenever the OED and Emacs are both >=20 > running, if in Emacs I make a deletion, the computer switches to the >=20 > OED window and attempts to look up the character or string deleted. >=20 > (That of course is an intolerable distraction and means that I have to >=20 > kill the OED after each use of it.) This behavior has survived the >=20 > upgrade from Emacs 22.3 to 24.3. It does not occur with deletions in >=20 > other software such as Conkeror and Microsoft Word, so I *suppose* it >=20 > is a peculiarity of Emacs. >=20 >=20 >=20 > Feel free to speculate. %^) >=20 > --=20 >=20 > --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net >=20 >=20 >=20 > ||: Wealth, like happiness, is best attained while pursuing :|| >=20 > ||: 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 th= is 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.