Subject: bug#6558: 23.2; Cannot paste large clipboard

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:11:46 -0400

Steve Chapel <[email-masked]> writes:

> 1. I went to http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=problems&id=13
>    and copied the list of numbers to the clipboard
> 2. I opened a new file with emacs and pasted the clipboard in with
>    Ctrl-Shift-V
>
> Emacs did not paste the entire list of numbers into the file.

By default, `yank' does not paste the clipboard.  Bind a key to
clipboard-yank, or set x-select-enable-clipboard to t.

We should probably set it to t for the trunk (Emacs 24)...