From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Korb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12750: Highlighting text no longer works Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:32:28 -0700 Message-ID: <508D5E1C.8050601@gmail.com> References: <508D5A4D.3020604@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351442026 9727 80.91.229.3 (28 Oct 2012 16:33:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:33:46 +0000 (UTC) To: 12750@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 28 17:33:54 2012 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 1TSVo9-0001SQ-TG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 17:33:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50759 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSVo1-0005Fn-Rp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:33:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35896) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSVny-0005FD-Ov for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:33:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSVnx-0007ka-SS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:33:42 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:54781) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSVnx-0007kW-P4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:33:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TSVqE-0001pk-8X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:36:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Bruce Korb Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:36:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12750 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.13514421046982 (code B ref -1); Sun, 28 Oct 2012 16:36:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Oct 2012 16:35:04 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36798 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TSVpH-0001oY-27 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:35:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37522) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TSVpD-0001o8-GY for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:35:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSVmv-0007MD-50 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:32:37 -0400 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]:60160) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSVmv-0007M9-26 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:32:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35333) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSVms-00054x-VS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:32:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSVmr-0007LC-Ie for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:32:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-f171.google.com ([209.85.212.171]:52900) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSVmr-0007Kv-AO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 12:32:33 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wi0-f171.google.com with SMTP id hj13so1236175wib.12 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:32:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=W70+zUP/+dhsFmtt8nRFogkvvnq1gF3L4Lo4Cg67m00=; b=VOKYmIEV1m8ekrTc4SoPPVdEx020mFvoz6Y4qeQtp2V/4U+PZM8jyEtwMoIWSgV0Kt pqxdw/CbnxsYQrub+si9xCWgrJpjAmLriWLI1Y9H3dU7BW10it/ij+hyT/c5tYGkux9i 8ZuCiqd0gOMG1Muj8IJNQyP4j4LhA7IJI+7VzmNSHAnnGoQPXZvf4zKHr0kZro5Az+ri AwL6XNsAsqT7a9mGDhxKh3uw5VeIR8KqDM/n/TYPFCKpIHQHHKRGqit5STiGjOJzcB8W JSAfLK8drVcThrOIYLzVafZotJVszAc7EGoDslwGQP1tPfpXuFbOA4sydasFKb+B49qQ TnCA== Original-Received: by 10.216.132.215 with SMTP id o65mr15983439wei.100.1351441952537; Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:32:32 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.10.2] (adsl-76-254-31-17.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net. [76.254.31.17]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id bn7sm7478007wib.8.2012.10.28.09.32.30 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:32:31 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 In-Reply-To: <508D5A4D.3020604@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:66140 Archived-At: On 10/28/12 09:16, Bruce Korb wrote: > For many years, I have selected text and then pasted it where I wanted. > There is a new feature in emacs: selected text is no longer in the > pasteable buffer. I must move my hand from the mouse to the keyboard > to copy the text and then back to the mouse to paste it. This is a bug. > Pending a fix in the next emacs release, how do I work around this problem? > Thank you! > > $ rpm -q -a|grep -i emacs > emacs-24.2-15.8.2.x86_64 > go-emacs-1.0.2-1.4.1.x86_64 > emacs-info-24.2-15.8.2.noarch > emacs-x11-24.2-15.8.2.x86_64 > emacs-nox-24.2-15.8.2.x86_64 > emacs-el-24.2-15.8.2.noarch Some experimentation has allowed me to characterize the issue better. Double click a word and paste the word works fine. The habit that is broken is: 1. left click the end of some text 2. right click the start of some text 3. alt-shift-5 ctl-y (query replace followed by paste) Expected result: the text I just selected would be in the query-replace buffer Actual result: the previous paste buffer gets inserted Still a nuisance.