Mouse copy/paste problem?

Mouse copy/paste problem?

[Angelo Graziosi]

Just for completeness...

With trunk, at least > 108548 (june 10, 2012), copy/pasting with mouse 
doesn't seem to work. To reproduce:

emacs -Q &

In the "scratch" buffer double click on the word "then" (start 3rd row). 
Then move to the end of the row, i.e. after "buffer." and paste with 
mouse-2 (wheel). It pastes "then enter the text in that file's own 
buffer." and not "then". Repeating several tries, it never pastes 
correctly but garbage. The same happens if one select the words dragging 
the mouse. With trunk 108548 (the last revision I have backed up) it 
works fine.

This happens with trunk builds on GNU/Linux (K)Ubuntu 12.04, Fedora 16, 
and on Cygwin.

Ciao,
Angelo.

Re: Mouse copy/paste problem?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:56:03 +0200
> From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
> 
> Just for completeness...
> 
> With trunk, at least > 108548 (june 10, 2012), copy/pasting with mouse 
> doesn't seem to work. To reproduce:
> 
> emacs -Q &
> 
> In the "scratch" buffer double click on the word "then" (start 3rd row). 
> Then move to the end of the row, i.e. after "buffer." and paste with 
> mouse-2 (wheel). It pastes "then enter the text in that file's own 
> buffer." and not "then". Repeating several tries, it never pastes 
> correctly but garbage. The same happens if one select the words dragging 
> the mouse. With trunk 108548 (the last revision I have backed up) it 
> works fine.
> 
> This happens with trunk builds on GNU/Linux (K)Ubuntu 12.04, Fedora 16, 
> and on Cygwin.

Doesn't happen in the native Windows build of revno 108682.  But the
native Windows build doesn't have a real primary selection, so I'm not
sure this is relevant.

Re: Mouse copy/paste problem?

[Angelo Graziosi]

Il 23/06/2012 9.11, Eli Zaretskii ha scritto:
>> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:56:03 +0200
>> From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it>
>>
>> Just for completeness...
>>
>> With trunk, at least > 108548 (june 10, 2012), copy/pasting with mouse
>> doesn't seem to work. To reproduce:
>>
>> emacs -Q &
>>
>> In the "scratch" buffer double click on the word "then" (start 3rd row).
>> Then move to the end of the row, i.e. after "buffer." and paste with
>> mouse-2 (wheel). It pastes "then enter the text in that file's own
>> buffer." and not "then". Repeating several tries, it never pastes
>> correctly but garbage. The same happens if one select the words dragging
>> the mouse. With trunk 108548 (the last revision I have backed up) it
>> works fine.
>>
>> This happens with trunk builds on GNU/Linux (K)Ubuntu 12.04, Fedora 16,
>> and on Cygwin.
>
> Doesn't happen in the native Windows build of revno 108682.  But the
> native Windows build doesn't have a real primary selection, so I'm not
> sure this is relevant.
>

Maybe this change is the culprit?

lisp/ChangeLog:

2012-06-13  Chong Yidong  <cyd@gnu.org>

         * mouse.el (mouse-drag-track): Do not set the mark if the user
         releases the mouse without selecting anything (Bug#11588).


I guess this because:

emacs -Q &

Now in the "scratch" buffer I select the word "then" at the start of 3rd 
row *holding down* the SHIF key and moving with right arrow, i.e. not 
using mouse. Then with mouse-1 I go to the end of "buffer.". Clicking 
with mouse-2 (wheel) I get "then enter the text in that file's own 
buffer." pasted. Instead, if I move at the end of "buffer." with arrow 
key and there I paste with mouse-2, I correctly get "then".

In other words, if I use the mouse *only* for pasting and not for select 
the text and moving the pointer, I get the right behavior.


Ciao,
Angelo.

Re: Mouse copy/paste problem?

[Chong Yidong]

Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it> writes:

> Now in the "scratch" buffer I select the word "then" at the start of
> 3rd row *holding down* the SHIF key and moving with right arrow,
> i.e. not using mouse. Then with mouse-1 I go to the end of
> "buffer.". Clicking with mouse-2 (wheel) I get "then enter the text in
> that file's own buffer." pasted. Instead, if I move at the end of
> "buffer." with arrow key and there I paste with mouse-2, I correctly
> get "then".
>
> In other words, if I use the mouse *only* for pasting and not for
> select the text and moving the pointer, I get the right behavior.

I just committed a fix to this part of the code.  Can you try again and
see if the problem persists?

Re: Mouse copy/paste problem?

[Angelo Graziosi]

Il 23/06/2012 14.55, Chong Yidong ha scritto:
> Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi@alice.it> writes:
>
>> Now in the "scratch" buffer I select the word "then" at the start of
>> 3rd row *holding down* the SHIF key and moving with right arrow,
>> i.e. not using mouse. Then with mouse-1 I go to the end of
>> "buffer.". Clicking with mouse-2 (wheel) I get "then enter the text in
>> that file's own buffer." pasted. Instead, if I move at the end of
>> "buffer." with arrow key and there I paste with mouse-2, I correctly
>> get "then".
>>
>> In other words, if I use the mouse *only* for pasting and not for
>> select the text and moving the pointer, I get the right behavior.
>
> I just committed a fix to this part of the code.  Can you try again and
> see if the problem persists?
>

Now it seems fixed!

Thanks,
  Angelo.