bug#11389: 24.0.96; Emacs not using the MS Windows clipboard

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: "Gallagher, Kevin" <Kevin.Gallagher@boeing.com>
> CC: "11389@debbugs.gnu.org" <11389@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 14:59:26 -0500
> 
> (1) I start up Emacs with -Q using runemacs.exe from a command line window. I then start up MS Word 2007, SP3. I type in "This is a test." into a blank word document, highlight the text with the mouse, and copy it with a Ctrl-C.  I move the mouse pointer to the Emacs window, click the left mouse button to get focus, and then press the middle mouse button. This time, and ONLY this time, the copied text appears in the Emacs buffer.  All subsequent attempts to copy text in either direction between Emacs and Word fail.
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> (2) I restart Emacs and Word as in 1, above. This time I type "This is text in Emacs." into the Emacs Scratch buffer and highlight with the mouse.  I then move the mouse pointer to the Word window, click the left mouse button to get focus, and type Ctrl-V.  The text I highlighted in Emacs is NOT pasted into the Word document. Instead, the most recent copied text from a non-Emacs program appears. At this point, any attempt to copy from the Word document to an Emacs buffer fails.

This is a feature (new with Emacs 24).  In the first scenario, if you
use C-y instead of mouse-2, you will have the text pasted every time.
In the second scenario, if you use M-w after highlighting text, the
text will be put into the clipboard.  IOW, the clipboard interface is
used with C-w/M-w/C-y and only sometimes with the mouse.

The details (including how to get the old behavior by customizing
several variables) are in NEWS; search for "Selection changes".

I'm closing this non-bug.