GNU bug report logs - #23628
25.1.50; wrong saving of unicode characters into kill ring

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Peter Münster <pmlists <at> free.fr>

Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 06:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.1.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Peter Münster <pmlists <at> free.fr>
Cc: 23628 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23628: 25.1.50; wrong saving of unicode characters into kill ring
Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 12:43:09 +0300

> From: Peter Münster <pmlists <at> free.fr>
> Cc: 23628 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 10:58:32 +0200
> 
> On Fri, May 27 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Strange.  Do you have some clipboard-related agent active that tries
> > to do something with stuff pasted from the clipboard?
> 
> xcb is running. (no problem since 1995...)
> 
> I've killed it, but that does not change anything.

Right, as expected.

> > What happens if you set interprogram-paste-function to always return
> > nil?
> 
> Indeed, this solves the problem.

Strange, AFAIR Emacs is not supposed to get text from the clipboard if
the text there came from the same Emacs session.  It should take the
text from the kill-ring.
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