From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Annoying kill-ring behavior Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 07:59:23 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396531735 9161 80.91.229.3 (3 Apr 2014 13:28:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 13:28:55 +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 Apr 03 15:28:48 2014 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 1WVh79-0000rL-KF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2014 14:51:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43843 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WVh79-0003vi-6m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:51:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42409) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WVh6o-0003fx-Ow for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:51:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WVh6g-0000s3-Ro for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:51:06 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54592) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WVh6g-0000rb-Kj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2014 08:50:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WVgT5-0007uU-Hv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2014 14:10:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 192-171-35-19.cpe.pppoe.ca ([192.171.35.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Apr 2014 14:10:03 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 192-171-35-19.cpe.pppoe.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Apr 2014 14:10:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192-171-35-19.cpe.pppoe.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:e4zaHnVJFg/LZV2QBVbcfBJZxpc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:96932 Archived-At: > But it's not a Windows-specific bug, if you C-x C-e on this code: > > (progn > (setq select-active-regions nil) > (setq mouse-drag-copy-region t) > (global-set-key [mouse-2] 'mouse-yank-at-click)) > > And then do the mouse-1-micro-drag that I described earlier, you will see > the zero-length entries in the kill-ring, on Windows and Linux. I suggest you M-x report-emacs-bug, then, so that we can fix it for 24.4. Stefan