GNU bug report logs - #18939
24.4; a left-click in Emacs sometimes modifies the PRIMARY selection

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>

Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 20:58:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: security

Found in version 24.4

Done: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18939: closed (24.4; a left-click in Emacs sometimes modifies
 the PRIMARY selection)
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 18:35:02 +0000
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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #18939,
regarding 24.4; a left-click in Emacs sometimes modifies the PRIMARY selection
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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.4;
 middle-click sometimes pastes data other than the PRIMARY selection
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 21:56:44 +0100
Usually a middle-click pastes the PRIMARY selection, but sometimes
it pastes something else. I don't know how to reproduce this bug,
but it occurred several times in the last two hours.



In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.3)
 of 2014-10-25 on trouble, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11601000
System Description:	Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid)

Configured using:
 `configure --build x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr
 --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
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 --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pop=yes
 --enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs24:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.4/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp
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 --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-toolkit-scroll-bars
 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat
 -Werror=format-security -Wall' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-z,relro'

Important settings:
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  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $LC_TIME: en_DK
  value of $LANG: POSIX
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Major mode: Lisp Interaction

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Recent input:
<escape> x r e p o r t - b u <tab> <return>

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For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

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/usr/share/emacs24/site-lisp/flim/hmac-md5 hides /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/net/hmac-md5
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From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>, 
 Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 18939-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18939: 24.4; middle-click sometimes pastes data other than
 the PRIMARY selection
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 19:33:57 +0100
Hi.

It seems I introduced this bug when fixing 16382.

The analysis that mouse-drag-track has something to do with this is correct, 
however it is not pop-mark, it is deactivate-mark who sets PRIMARY wrongly 
sometimes (pop-mark may itself call deactivate-mark).

I have checked in a fix in the emacs-24 branch.

	Jan D.

Den 2015-03-22 02:42, Vincent Lefevre skrev:
> On 2015-03-21 18:25:01 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> % emacs24 -Q    ; That's Debian's Emacs-24.4
>>>> M-< C-k
>>>> C-x 5 b *Messages*
>>>> drag-mouse-1               [ in *Messages*, to select "information" ]
>>> It step 3, it must be another window
>>
>> With C-x 5 b I did get another window (frame).
>
> Yes, but this also has the effect to do other operations in
> the Emacs process.
>
>>> (e.g. xterm, or even some other Emacs window at least if it is not the
>>> same process).
>>
>> I haven't tried with another Emacs process, but I did try with an xterm
>> and got the same result.
>> What do you get if you follow my recipe?
>
> Emacs behaves correctly in this case. Ditto if I do the
> C-x 5 b *Messages* before the M-< C-k. But if the other window
> belongs to a different process, the bug occurs.
>



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