From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 26.2 RC1 copy-and-paste fail Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:15:22 +0300 Message-ID: <835zsbtm5x.fsf@gnu.org> References: <831s3le24y.fsf@gnu.org> <83ef7kc75p.fsf@gnu.org> <837ecsuw10.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="243520"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 22 08:15:46 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1h7EP3-00119j-Me for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 08:15:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53094 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7EP2-0001pE-IK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 03:15:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55504) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7EOf-0001nf-5A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 03:15:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:52977) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h7EOe-0001OB-Vk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 03:15:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2371 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1h7EOe-0007Rg-CQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2019 03:15:20 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Van L on Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:33:51 +1100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119713 Archived-At: > From: Van L > Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:33:51 +1100 > > > What exactly does "FAILS" mean here? I may be blind, but this last > > C-y does work for me, it pastes a second copy of the \200 description > > into *scratch*. > > When I paste I expect the second description of \200 eight-bit to land on > *scratch* buffer. What I get is anything but that. For example, in the > following quote block after //[paste 3] there is no way I can copy and > paste the details of \200 eight-bit to there. What is pasted is an > earlier copy of anything else in the kill ring. If it isn't an Emacs > problem then maybe the clipboard mechanism on XQuartz/darwin is bung. Yes, that could be it. Is this in "emacs -Q"? If so, do you have some clipboard-handling application running on your system, which could be causing this? Failing all of the above, please submit a bug report.