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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: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#6944: closed (Re: bug#6944: Paste in Edit menu not active at
 start)
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:10:03 +0000

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Your bug report

#6944: Paste in Edit menu not active at start

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 6944 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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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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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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