Package: emacs;
Reported by: Pablo Mercader Alcántara <programingfrik <at> gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 00:10:02 UTC
Severity: minor
Found in version 24.5
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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From: Pablo Mercader Alcántara <programingfrik <at> gmail.com> To: 21196 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: bug#21196: 24.5; Paste from clipboard to emacs -nw on windows 8.1 Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 20:06:19 -0400
Some days ago I installed version 24.5, in the previous version that I used (24.3) everything was fine. I start my emacs session with the "-nw" command line option. And proceeded to work. Everything works fine, except that now after the update the text that I kill on emacs doesn't go into windows clipboard. I can paste on emacs text coming from other programs through the clipboard, but the inverse is not possible. When I start emacs normally (without "-nw") everything works fine, so at first I thought that this was some kind of new configuration. Later I decided to make some research and found where the problem was. Looking at the value of the variable "interprogram-cut-function" in my system I see that it's set to "x-select-text" and in my system this function is defined at "common-win.el". In the body of "x-select-text" the first "cond" function is like this "(cond ((eq (framep (selected-frame)) 'w32) ..." and I think this is the cause for the kill function to be unable to send the text to the clipboard when running with the "-nw" option, because when emacs runs in this mode the call "(framep (selected-frame))" returns "t" when it is waiting for a "w32" value. When the same call is run on the emacs running whithout the "-nw" option the expected "w32" value appears. I was also curious about why the yank function does work so, I went to see the source of the "x-get-selection-value" function too. It turns out that it's even defined on a different source file named "w32-common-fns.el". Seeing that I think that only the windows version defines this function this way, and I can't see anything like the "framep" function arround here so there is the problem. Thanks for the great emacs editor! I really admire this project! In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) of 2015-04-11 on LEG570 Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.3.9600 Configured using: `configure --prefix=/c/usr --host=i686-pc-mingw32' Important settings: value of $LANG: ESD locale-coding-system: cp1252 Major mode: Help Minor modes in effect: yas-global-mode: t yas-minor-mode: t tooltip-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: End of buffer [2 times] x-get-selection-value Quit x-get-selection-value Type "q" to restore previous buffer. You can run the command `describe-function' with C-h f Type "q" to restore previous buffer. C-x C-g is undefined Quit Making completion list... 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