GNU bug report logs - #46689
28.0.50; Behavior changed in latest Gcc Emacs

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Violin Learner <zhao.york <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2021 16:23:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Violin Learner <zhao.york <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 46689 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#46689: 28.0.50; Behavior changed in latest Gcc Emacs
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 15:50:00 +0200
Violin Learner <zhao.york <at> gmail.com> writes:

> In the latest Gcc Emacs, selecting some text within Emacs will change the result of
> (current-kill 0). However, the old behavior was that only selecting text in the external
> programs other than Emacs would change what (current-kill 0) returns.
>
> Reproduce steps:
>
> 1. Evaluate (setq select-enable-primary t)
> 2. Evaluate (current-kill 0), and note the result
> 3. Hit C-<SPC>, move the cursor to select some text
> 4. Evaluate (current-kill 0) again, and the result will be the text just been selected in
> step 3. However, the result used to be the same as in step 2.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I'm unable to reproduce this behaviour now.  Do you still see this in
recent Emacs versions?

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