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#6944: Paste in Edit menu not active at start Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:56:31 +0300 Message-ID: <83y6bojayo.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283188518 30022 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2010 17:15:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:15:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6944@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 30 19:15:16 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 1Oq7ww-0005Zu-VY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:15:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35581 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oq7ww-0003HQ-4U for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:15:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53446 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oq7rY-0000P7-Eq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:09:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq7rW-0004Fb-VE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:09:40 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:43563) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq7rW-0004FS-Sc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:09:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq7bS-0005Rq-1L; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:53:02 -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: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:53:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6944 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6944-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6944.128318718020936 (code B ref 6944); Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:53:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6944) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Aug 2010 16:53:00 +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 1Oq7bP-0005Rd-Hm for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:52:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oq7bN-0005RY-Gt for 6944@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:52:58 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L7Z00L005EPSY00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 6944@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:54:27 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.202.93]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L7Z00KK25MPISF0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:54:26 +0300 (IDT) 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: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:53:02 -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:39839 Archived-At: > From: Lennart Borgman > Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:32:56 +0200 > Cc: > > After starting Emacs with "emacs -Q" the "Paste" alternative is not > active in the menu even though C-y works. This happens because menu-bar.el defines the sensitivity of "Paste" as follows: (define-key menu-bar-edit-menu [paste] `(menu-item ,(purecopy "Paste") yank :enable (and (or ;; Emacs compiled --without-x doesn't have ;; x-selection-exists-p. (and (fboundp 'x-selection-exists-p) (x-selection-exists-p)) kill-ring) (not buffer-read-only)) and x-selection-exists-p with its argument omitted probes the PRIMARY selection, which doesn't exist on MS-Windows. I can easily fix that with an MS-Windows specific change, but I'm actually surprised we don't call (x-selection-exists-p 'CLIPBOARD) here: isn't C-y supposed to yank from the clipboard, not from PRIMARY? If we use 'CLIPBOARD, the code will work on Windows without any changes. Am I missing something?