GNU bug report logs - #17271
24.4.50; mouse-yank-primary can insert read-only attributes

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jorgen Schaefer <forcer <at> forcix.cx>

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 18:35:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.4.50

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Jorgen Schaefer <forcer <at> forcix.cx>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.4.50; mouse-yank-primary can insert read-only attributes
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 20:33:25 +0200

Hi!
We have witnessed some strange behavior when users of the IRC client
Circe copied text from a channel buffer elsewhere. The copied text
remained read-only, as the channel buffer is, but only when copied using
the mouse, not when copied using the keyboard.

Reproduction:

(setq select-active-regions t)
(insert (propertize "foo" 'read-only t))

Then select the "foo" and immediately yank it somewhere using the middle
mouse button. The inserted text retains the read-only property.


It probably would be a good idea for `mouse-yank-primary' to use
`insert-for-yank' instead of `insert'.
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 19 days ago.

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