From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Coda Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: w32-get-clipboard-data Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 07:00:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <73786808-1eac-48dc-a755-da733dc273fa@googlegroups.com> References: <0f6a0212-3e01-4a6d-8b6d-6361621f4dc1@googlegroups.com> <0de2f21d-dd37-4ab1-bf0b-e0f04f18493e@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441202725 26619 80.91.229.3 (2 Sep 2015 14:05:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 14:05:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 02 16:05:24 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1ZX8fD-0006Is-JF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 16:05:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37963 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZX8fD-0000xC-Gv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 10:05:23 -0400 X-Received: by 10.182.128.101 with SMTP id nn5mr3825485obb.31.1441202415211; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 07:00:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.41.34 with SMTP id c2mr59583igl.1.1441202415172; Wed, 02 Sep 2015 07:00:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!kq10no468950igb.0!news-out.google.com!f6ni12827igi.0!nntp.google.com!kq10no612120igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=195.188.251.108; posting-account=m04FzgoAAACE321zIBttJ0LOy_kNjzcN Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.188.251.108 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 14:00:15 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:214698 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106982 Archived-At: On Wednesday, 2 September 2015 06:35:26 UTC+1, Random832 wrote: > Stephen Coda writes: > > > It's only ever happened to me on this particular > > machine. Unfortunately I don't control how it is set up. > > How *is* it set up? Is there anything installed/running that might be > doing unusual things with the clipboard (clipboard managers, monitoring > programs, remote desktop access [whether outgoing or incoming])? > > It seems unusual though that pasting into other apps works if this is > the case. You can't copy *or* paste in Emacs? > > Are you able to build a test C program to exercise > OpenClipboard, GetClipboardData(CF_UNICODETEXT), CloseClipboard and see > if they all function as expected independent of Emacs? Hi Random832, It is set up by an admin:) I think it might well be a security issue, and that maybe websecure anywhere is responsible. But I don't have access to the settings and have submitted a ticket to get this looked into. And just tried GetClipboardData, it is returning null.... Kind regards, Steve