Package: emacs;
Reported by: "Dr. Michael L. Dowling" <Mike.Dowling <at> t-online.de>
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 16:10:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
From: "Dr. Michael L. Dowling" <Mike.Dowling <at> t-online.de> To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org Subject: Cut and paste problems on Linux on a text virtual console no longer works Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 17:09:35 +0100
I don't believe that emacs can send this report as my ISP expects SASL to port 578. I therefore
send it using an appropriately configured "mutt" as user agent.
The Report:
If I use X-windows, there is no problem with cutting and pasting from
outside an emacs buffer into an emacs buffer and vice versa. But this
no longer works when in a text console. When on a Linux virtual
console, pasting into an emacs buffer results in the message:
"No selection available"
in the mini-buffer. Conversely, marking text in an emacs buffer and pasting into a virtual
console yields no error, but it does not paste.
I have been using Linux and emacs for decades, and this used to work until recently, but just
how recently, I cannot say, probably a month or two.
I've searched the Internet, but the only mention of something similar said that it was
fundamentally impossible, but this is not true. I've been using that feature for years. (I
had the impression that the author was using Windows and wanted to cut
and paste to and to and from a DOS box.)
I use Arch Linux with the latest packages updated every day. Nothing self compiled.
My tests were as follows:
1. Try emacs -q -- still does not work.
2. Set up a new user with no special environment, just out of the box. No .emacs file, and
no bash init files. Same behaviour.
3. Now the strange bit: login using my normal userid "mike" and change user to the newly
created user "joe", and cut and paste works for joe. ("su - joe" was used for that.)
4. Logout, and log back in again as joe (no su -; joe logs in from the
text terminal), cut and paste no longer works for joe, But change user user
using "su - mike", and it works for mike!
5. Is it a shell problem? Change shell to zsh, same behaviour.
6. Login as mike or joe, and call the bash again. Now I'm not in a login shell, but same
behaviour, no cut and paste.
I cannot say for sure that this is an emacs problem. It could be a Linux problem, or an Arch
Linux problem. It might even be a shell problem, although with the above tests that seem
unlikely.
In GNU Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.19)
of 2017-09-16 built on juergen
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11905000
Configured using:
'configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib
--localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft --with-modules
'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong
-fno-plt' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now'
Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS
NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 MODULES
Important settings:
value of $LC_CTYPE: en_NZ.UTF-8
value of $LC_MONETARY: en_IE.UTF-8
value of $LC_TIME: en_DK.UTF-8
value of $LANG: en_NZ.UTF-8
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
Major mode: Lisp Interaction
Minor modes in effect:
Info-breadcrumbs-in-mode-line-mode: t
icicle-mode: t
diff-auto-refine-mode: t
shell-dirtrack-mode: t
on-screen-global-mode: t
display-time-mode: t
global-highlight-parentheses-mode: t
highlight-parentheses-mode: t
minibuffer-depth-indicate-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
global-eldoc-mode: t
eldoc-mode: t
electric-indent-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
column-number-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent messages:
Function icicle-repeat-complex-command is already compiled
Turning OFF Icicle mode...done
Turning ON Icicle mode...done
Turning OFF Icicle mode...done
Turning ON Icicle mode...done
Turning ON Icicle mode...done
Appointment reminders enabled (no diary file found)
Loading /usr/share/emacs/25.3/lisp/textmodes/table.elc...done
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Computing completion candidates...
Load-path shadows:
None found.
Features:
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mouse-copy appt diary-lib diary-loaddefs cal-menu calendar cal-loaddefs
warnings two-column info+ info icicles icicles-mode icicles-cmd2
icicles-cmd1 second-sel frame-cmds frame-fns avoid icicles-mcmd
image-dired icicles-fn icicles-var apropos-fn+var apropos icicles-opt
ffap url-parse url-vars fuzzy-match cus-theme cus-edit cus-start
cus-load bookmark+ bookmark+-key derived dired-x bookmark+-1
bookmark+-bmu bookmark+-lit pp+ icicles-face ring+ edmacro kmacro
julia-shell loccur crosshairs lacarte synonyms thingatpt+ hl-line+
hl-line col-highlight vline doremi psvn wid-edit log-edit message idna
dired rfc822 mml mml-sec epg mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse
rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mailabbrev mail-utils gmm-utils
mailheader pcvs-util add-log diff-mode ido ess-toolbar ess-mouse mouseme
ess-menu ess-swv ess-noweb ess-noweb-font-lock-mode ess-bugs-l essd-els
ess-sas-d ess-sas-l ess-sas-a ess-sta-d ess-sta-l cc-vars cc-defs
make-regexp ess-sp6-d ess-dde ess-sp3-d ess-julia julia-mode ess-r-d
ess-r-syntax ess-r-completion ess-roxy essddr hideshow ess-help
ess-r-package ess-s-l ess ess-inf ess-tracebug tramp tramp-compat
auth-source gnus-util mm-util help-fns mail-prsvr password-cache
tramp-loaddefs trampver ucs-normalize shell pcomplete format-spec advice
ess-mode ess-noweb-mode ess-utils ess-generics cl ess-custom executable
ess-compat ess-site bookmark+-mac bookmark filladapt dabbrev tex-site
auto-loads on-screen hexrgb ack quail math-symbol-lists time
slime-editing-commands slime-scratch slime-repl slime-parse
slime-autoloads slime compile etags xref cl-seq project eieio eieio-core
cl-macs arc-mode archive-mode noutline outline pp comint ansi-color ring
hyperspec thingatpt browse-url blinking-cursor pager easy-mmode
highlight-parentheses mb-depth+ mb-depth finder-inf package epg-config
seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cl-extra help-mode easymenu cconv
cl-loaddefs pcase cl-lib time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric
uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win
term/common-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe
tabulated-list newcomment elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page
menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock
syntax facemenu font-core frame cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang
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simple abbrev minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces
cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format
env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote
dbusbind inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting
move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty make-network-process emacs)
Memory information:
((conses 16 523402 14043)
(symbols 48 51189 1)
(miscs 40 664 299)
(strings 32 129144 19036)
(string-bytes 1 3827730)
(vectors 16 68310)
(vector-slots 8 1193079 2274)
(floats 8 557 274)
(intervals 56 370 0)
(buffers 976 106))
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Dr. Michael L. Dowling
Gaußstr. 27
38106 Braunschweig
Germany
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Gaußstr. 27
38106 Braunschweig
Germany
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