From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Tobias Bading <tbading@web.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Copy and paste from Emacs 29 to Thunderbird doesn’t work
Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 08:02:13 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a5yoex6i.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9c56cb17-1bc2-9533-31e0-0180f541dd09@web.de> (Tobias Bading's message of "Sun, 30 Apr 2023 15:01:37 +0200")
Tobias Bading <tbading@web.de> writes:
> Hi.
>
> I think I discovered a new kind of bug. It’s not like a heisenbug that
> tries to prevent people from studying it properly — this one tries to
> prevent being *reported*! XD
>
> When I was done composing my last mail in Emacs 29
> (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2023-04/msg00771.html),
> I tried to copy and paste the text into Thunderbird. Emphasis on trying.
> C-v didn’t work. Nothing happened. Double-clicked just a single word in
> Emacs, C-v in Thunderbird… nope, nothing. Clicked into Thunderbird’s
> ‘Subject’ field and pressed C-v… now I see my copied word! What the f…?
>
> Tried the same in Emacs 26 — no problems.
>
> After installing xclip and starting to wonder about the bazillion different
> selection formats, I wasn’t really in the mood for reading entire books
> about the X11 primary selection and clipboard. So I simply grep’d the
> sources for “OWNER_OS” because I have no idea why anyone would want to
> associate the operating system’s type with a selection. That led to
> selection-converter-alist in select.el.
>
> Long story short, replacing Emacs 29’s selection-converter-alist with the
> one from Emacs 26 seems to fix the problem, i.e.:
This is not a solution, but would you please send this to
bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org instead?
My suspicion is that Thunderbird asks for a target it shouldn't have.
Likely text/plain.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-30 13:01 Copy and paste from Emacs 29 to Thunderbird doesn’t work Tobias Bading
2023-05-01 0:02 ` Po Lu [this message]
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2023-05-02 7:25 Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2023-05-02 8:10 ` Po Lu
2023-05-02 17:22 ` Gregor Zattler
2023-05-02 23:33 ` Po Lu
2023-05-04 18:22 ` Gregor Zattler
2023-05-05 0:16 ` Po Lu
2023-05-05 5:45 ` Gregor Zattler
2023-05-05 6:16 ` Po Lu
2023-05-03 5:11 ` Tobias Bading
2023-05-03 5:20 ` Po Lu
2023-05-03 5:41 ` Tobias Bading
2023-05-03 5:57 ` Po Lu
2023-05-03 6:05 ` Tobias Bading
2023-05-03 6:54 ` Po Lu
2023-05-03 11:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-03 12:00 ` Po Lu
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