From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6956: 24.0.50; pasting mouse selection in other session pastes only first word Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:02:23 +0200 Message-ID: <8339t9319s.fsf@gnu.org> References: <296F488C207B496D9CA42F4AA0F7C835@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1284667858 3262 80.91.229.12 (16 Sep 2010 20:10:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:10:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6956@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 16 22:10:56 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwKnE-00006C-BB for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:10:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46587 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwKnD-0003FU-DN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:10:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52204 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OwKn2-0003EN-6m for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:10:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwKn0-0008Ms-Nu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:10:40 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:34450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwKn0-0008Mo-LN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:10:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwKdi-0001mT-4o; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:01:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:01:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6956 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6956-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6956.12846672136835 (code B ref 6956); Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:01:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6956) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Sep 2010 20:00:13 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwKcu-0001mC-IO for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:00:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwKcr-0001m3-HL for 6956@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:00:10 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L8U00H00VNAUH00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for 6956@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:02:25 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.81.53]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L8U00HVNVNWDEJ0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:02:25 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <296F488C207B496D9CA42F4AA0F7C835@us.oracle.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:01:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:40225 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:48:44 -0700 > Cc: > > Dunno whether you prefer a new bug report for this or continuing the > saga within a previous bug report. This is no longer about "No > primary selection", but picking up from the thread of bug #6689, for > background: > > > > > I still want the ability to select text with the mouse > > > > and yank it into the same or another Emacs session > > > > (even another session of another Emacs release - > > > > in either direction). > > > > > > You can have it, if you customize mouse-drag-copy-region to > > > t, like it was before the changes that broke mouse-2 on Windows. > > > > Thanks for the info. Hopefully, when all of the changes are > > over and done with, and all of the default decisions made, > > this and any other customizations needed to get back the > > previous behavior will be documented together (e.g. in NEWS). > > > > BTW, the doc string for that option doesn't say much about > > what it does, at least to me. And the option name doesn't > > seem terrific either. > > Have you actually tried it? No, it does not work, for me at > least in GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of > 2010-08-30 on 3249CTO. > > Even if I set that option to t in both Emacs sessions (and even if both > sessions are of this latest build), the entire selection is not pasted. > > For each session: > > emacs -Q > > M-x set-variable mouse-drag-copy-region RET t RET > > Select some text (several words) with the mouse using double-click > mouse-1 on one word then mouse-3 on a later word in the text. > > mouse-2 in the same session will correctly paste the complete selection. > But mouse-2 in the other session pastes only the first word of the > selection. Can this bug be closed now? If not, what else needs to be fixed?