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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: x-clipboard-yank insert kill-ring entry instead of primary selection
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:47:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831rqeho9f.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aeaa139a2823843983389dce0e7d0c38@posteo.net> (mickbert@posteo.net)

> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 09:31:07 +0100
> From: mickbert@posteo.net
> 
> Hello.
> I am using GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 
> 3.22.30) of 2018-09-12 on x86-039.build.eng.bos.redhat.com (but the same 
> happen with the latest version compiled by me from sources) in an X 
> frame
> 
> Note that the middle button of mouse, bound to 'mouse-yank-primary, 
> works correctly. Instead the command 'x-clipboard-yank (which I bound to 
> "<S-ins>", "<S-insert>", "<S-insertchar>" just as experiments) inserts 
> the current entry of kill-ring, just the same as 'yank.
> 
> Any idea what I can look to find why it does this way, and correct it?

I suggest to read the section "Selection changes" in NEWS, it explains
what has changed in this area and how to customize Emacs to get back
the old pre-Emacs 24 behavior.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-28 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-28  8:31 x-clipboard-yank insert kill-ring entry instead of primary selection mickbert
2020-02-28 12:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-02-28 12:47 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-03-02  9:57   ` mickbert
2020-03-02 11:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02 16:31     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-02 16:54       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02 19:56         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-02 20:15           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-03 14:35             ` Stefan Monnier

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