Re: Emacs kill/copy under X versus under Windows

[John A Pershing Jr <pershing@alum.mit.edu>]

Jeff Clough <jeff@chaosphere.com> writes:

> 1.  Type a line of text in Emacs and do a kill-line on it.  2.  Copy a
> different line of text from some other application.  3.  Do a (car
> kill-ring) in emacs.  See it display the text you typed from step #1.
> 4.  Do a C-y in emacs, this dumps in the text from step #2.  5.  Do (car
> kill-ring) again and see that the text from #2 has magically been added
> to the kill ring.

The reason for this is that Emacs doesn't check the Windoze clipboard
until you run the 'yank' function (actually, the function named by
'interprogram-paste-function', but that's a low-level detail), so the
kill ring won't show the contents of the clipboard until you actually
yank it into the buffer.

  -jp