GNU bug report logs - #4484
23.1.50; Null Byte Yank on Mac OS X

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From: Alex Schröder <kensanata <at> gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1.50; Null Byte Yank on Mac OS X
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:54:49 +0200

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In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.2 (i386-apple-darwin8.11.1, NS apple-appkit-824.48)
 of 2009-07-30 on Pyrobombus.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.824
configured using `configure  '--with-ns''

Try this: t e s t C-q 0 RET y o C-a C-k C-y -- this should print test^@yo,
go back, kill it all, and yank it. But on my system it only yanks "test" --
the null byte ends it all.

A quick question on #emacs revealed that some other people had the same
problem and all of them were using Emacs.app with the GUI on OSX. One user
with a 2009-05-11 version using a GUI reported that it works, but my version
from 2009-07-30 does not. Another user with version 23.0.96.1 reported a
fail as well.

Cheers
Alex

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Message #10 received at 4484 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: David Schroeder <david <at> davidschroeder.net>
To: 4484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Null Byte Yank
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:26:08 -0500

Testing seems to indicate that when killing, Emacs doesn't properly  
put the null or following characters in the pasteboard.

When manually putting test\0yo in the pasteboard, Emacs will only yank  
the characters up to the null.

However, properly handling this is possible. Both TextMate and MacVim  
properly paste the characters, including the null.

For testing with this problem, the OS X command-line tools 'pbpaste'  
and 'pbcopy' are useful for examining the contents of the OS X  
pasteboard.

Message #15 received at 4484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Alex Schröder <kensanata <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 4484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4484: 23.1.50; Null Byte Yank on Mac OS X
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:34:22 +0000

Alex Schröder <kensanata <at> gmail.com> writes:

> In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.2 (i386-apple-darwin8.11.1, NS apple-appkit-824.48)
> of 2009-07-30 on Pyrobombus.local
> Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.824
> configured using `configure '--with-ns''
>
> Try this: t e s t C-q 0 RET y o C-a C-k C-y -- this should print
> test^@yo, go back, kill it all, and yank it. But on my system it only
> yanks "test" -- the null byte ends it all.
>
> A quick question on #emacs revealed that some other people had the
> same problem and all of them were using Emacs.app with the GUI on OSX.
> One user with a 2009-05-11 version using a GUI reported that it works,
> but my version from 2009-07-30 does not. Another user with version
> 23.0.96.1 reported a fail as well.

Hi, I can't reproduce this with Emacs 25. Are you still seeing it on a
recent build?

-- 
Alan Third

Message #20 received at 4484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Hagmonk <hagmonk <at> icloud.com>
To: 4484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4484: 23.1.50; Null Byte Yank on Mac OS
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 20:16:46 -0800

I can confirm that this does not reproduce on Emacs 25.0.92.2 on OS X 10.11.3.

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