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Secondary selection error

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Per Nordlöw" <per.nordlow <at> gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: Secondary selection error
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:16:50 +0200

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Evaluating the expression (x-get-selection 'SECONDARY) raises an error
in emacs -Q on my Ubuntu Hardy Linux (using my daily emacs
CVS-build)!. I believe it should instead return nil.

Thanks for Emacs,
Per Nordlöw

My build settings:

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9)
 of 2008-08-20 on bahjan
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10400090
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/home/per/alt'
'--enable-font-backend' '--with-xft' '--with-freetype' '--with-rsvg'
'--with-x-toolkit=gtk' 'CC=ccache gcc-4.2' 'CFLAGS= -march=athlon64 -mmmx
-mfpmath=sse -msse -msse2 -m3dnow -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops
-ftree-vectorize -ftree-vectorizer-verbose=1' 'LDFLAGS=-s''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: sv_SE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=SCIM
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> M-d C-g M-x r e p o r t - e m <tab> <ret
urn>

Recent messages:
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Message #10 received at 751-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
To: Per Nordlöw <per.nordlow <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 751-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Secondary selection error
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:12:25 -0400

> Evaluating the expression (x-get-selection 'SECONDARY) raises an error
> in emacs -Q on my Ubuntu Hardy Linux (using my daily emacs
> CVS-build)!. I believe it should instead return nil.

Sounds reasonable.  I've changed it to return nil.

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