Re: first copy & paste not working

[jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson)]

Joe Bloggs <who@cares.invalid> writes:

> jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) writes:
>
>> Joe Bloggs <who@cares.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> I can only yank my emacs text if I repeat the emacs cut/copy,
>>> othewise it just keeps yanking the external text. Can anyone help?
>> Hi Joe, good to see you again.
>> Which Emacs version and operating system are you using (specifically
>> which Unix?)?
>
> Emacs 21.4a on Debian etch, which is the latest version in the etch
> repository. 

A friend of mine advised me, after I found the latest Emacs in Debian
was 21.4, that adding the unstable repositories, and/or Ubuntu
repositories is a must for using up-to-date software on Debian.  Any
Debian users like to comment?

> Couldn't find anything newer in backports, and don't really want to
> build one myself as it could be more hassle than it's worth.

Then allow me to correct you: building Emacs from CVS is a
piece-of-cake.

(equal '(build emacs-from-cvs) 'piece-of-cake)
=> t

I only had to learn how to do it once, and then I set up building a
Slackware package as a cron job; every week I have a brand new Emacs
from CVS waiting for me on Monday.

make bootstrap
make
make install

and Emacs does the rest.

Check out http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsFromCVS

Joel

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