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Paste in Edit menu not active at start

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6944: closed (Paste in Edit menu not active at start)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:10:03 +0000

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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Emacs Bugs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Paste in Edit menu not active at start
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:32:56 +0200

After starting Emacs with "emacs -Q" the "Paste" alternative is not
active in the menu even though C-y works.


In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2010-08-10
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --no-opt --cflags
-Ic:/g/include -fno-crossjumping'

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com, 6944-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6944: Paste in Edit menu not active at start
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:12:26 +0300

> From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
> Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>, 6944 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:37:52 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >   (define-key menu-bar-edit-menu [paste]
> >     `(menu-item ,(purecopy "Paste") yank
> > 		:enable (and (or
> > 			      ;; Emacs compiled --without-x doesn't have
> > 			      ;; x-selection-exists-p.
> > 			      (and (fboundp 'x-selection-exists-p)
> > 				   (x-selection-exists-p))
> > 			      kill-ring)
> > 			     (not buffer-read-only))
> >
> > I can easily fix that with an MS-Windows specific change, but I'm
> > actually surprised we don't call (x-selection-exists-p 'CLIPBOARD)
> > here: isn't C-y supposed to yank from the clipboard, not from PRIMARY?
> > If we use 'CLIPBOARD, the code will work on Windows without any
> > changes.
> 
> Yes, please make the change.  This looks like an oversight.

Done.

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