From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Coda Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: w32-get-clipboard-data Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 01:16:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <0f6a0212-3e01-4a6d-8b6d-6361621f4dc1@googlegroups.com> (stephencoda@googlemail.com)> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440663638 10335 80.91.229.3 (27 Aug 2015 08:20:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 08:20:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 27 10:20:33 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUsQ9-0000Tx-GC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 10:20:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60304 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUsQ8-0003k5-M2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 04:20:28 -0400 X-Received: by 10.129.81.142 with SMTP id f136mr3023894ywb.28.1440663369465; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 01:16:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.40.42 with SMTP id u10mr215154igk.14.1440663369432; Thu, 27 Aug 2015 01:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!69no3937705qgi.0!news-out.google.com!f6ni6656igi.0!nntp.google.com!se8no11154948igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=195.188.251.108; posting-account=m04FzgoAAACE321zIBttJ0LOy_kNjzcN Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.188.251.108 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 08:16:09 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:214577 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106861 Archived-At: On Wednesday, 26 August 2015 00:57:46 UTC+1, Robert Thorpe wrote: > stephencoda@googlemail.com writes: >=20 > > For me, w32-get-clipboard-data > > always returns null. >=20 > Have you tried emacs -Q and then the usual kill/yank keys? I've never > known the clipboard to fail on MS Windows. >=20 > BR, > Robert Thorpe Hi Robert, emacs -Q doesn't seem to make any difference with regards to Pasting. I hav= e a couple of different versions of emacs on my machine, including PCemacs = that comes with swi-prolog, they all suffer from the same problem which mak= es it look like a windows issue to me, *until someone more knowledgeable th= an I has a better suggestion. Cheers, Steve