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24.0.92; M-w inhibits echoing of prefix arguments

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From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10224 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10224: 24.0.92; M-w inhibits echoing of prefix arguments
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:27:14 +0100

On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:00:40 +0800 Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org> wrote:

>> I switched to another desktop environment, and sure enough, the
>> echoing behavior after M-w was normal.  So this appears to be a
>> problem just with LXDE, which I used for the first time a few days
>> ago.  I have no idea what is causing it
>
> I recently made a change to the way X selections requests are processed
> by Emacs, which might have fixed this problem if LXDE has a clipboard
> manager.  If you still have LXDE installed, could you see if the problem
> is still there, or gone?

I don't know whether LXDE has a clipboard manager, but I just updated
from the trunk and rebuilt, switched to LXDE, started a fresh Emacs
session and carried out the recipe of my OP: the problem stills occurs,
just as before.

Steve Berman

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