Subject: Re: bug#53894: 27.2; Clipboard copy -> C-y -> M-y -> Same clipboard copy does not push to kill ring

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2022 21:21:31 +0100

Ignacio Casso <[email-masked]> writes:

> This would also answer my original question: unless there was a
> timestamp in the clipboard Emacs has indeed no way to know right now if
> the exact same string was copied to the clipboard again in-between (in
> which case I would expect it to be pushed to the top of the kill-ring
> again)

On X (at the very least), the clipboard does have a timestamp, though.
But we don't use it, which seems like the bug here.  Probably.

Po Lu's done some work in this area lately; added to the CCs.

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