Subject: bug#4484: 23.1.50; Null Byte Yank on Mac OS X

From: Alan Third <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:34:22 +0000

Alex Schröder <[email-masked]> 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