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#7699: 24.0.50; Emacs still doesn't paste what you select with mouse Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:14:09 +0200 Message-ID: <838vzjey66.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292959397 1226 80.91.229.12 (21 Dec 2010 19:23:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:23:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7699@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 21 20:23:13 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 1PV7ng-00053V-MW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:23:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36927 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PV7ng-0005Yl-2B for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:23:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37747 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PV7nZ-0005Xw-05 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:23:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PV7nX-0000zC-Pw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:23:00 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46404) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PV7nX-0000z8-NC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:22:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PV7b1-0001bP-2E; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:10:03 -0500 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: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:10:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7699 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7699-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7699.12929585946140 (code B ref 7699); Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:10:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7699) by debbugs.gnu.org; 21 Dec 2010 19:09:54 +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 1PV7ar-0001az-Va for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:09:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PV7ap-0001aj-K1 for 7699@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:09:53 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LDS00800LHUNI00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for 7699@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:16:13 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.167.122]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LDS0083ULIXJQ50@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:16:11 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:10:03 -0500 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:42720 Archived-At: > From: "Drew Adams" > Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:36:21 -0800 > Cc: > > emacs -Q > > Select some text outside an Emacs session - e.g. from another Emacs > session or from a Web browser or other app. Copy it to the clipboard > (C-c on Windows). > > In Emacs, select some text with the mouse (e.g. drag mouse-1). Click > mouse-2 to paste the text you selected. Instead what was copied to the > clipboard gets pasted. It will work as you want if you customize mouse-drag-copy-region to a non-nil value, I think. I will try to fix the default case as well in a few days (let me know if you want meanwhile to try a fix -- it's in mouse.el), but no promises, since this is all very tricky due to conflicting requirements and the fact that Windows doesn't have primary selection. See, for example, bug#6689.