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24.0.50; Nextstep: Can't copy and paste null characters

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From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche <at> math.ntnu.no>
Cc: 7934-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7934: 24.0.50; Nextstep: Can't copy and paste null characters
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 12:32:26 +0100

Fixed in trunk.

Thanks,

	Jan D.


Harald Hanche-Olsen skrev 2011-01-28 23.41:
> Starting with .../Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q:
> Type these characters in the *scratch* buffer:
> abc C-q C-space def
> so you now have a line looking like
> abc^@def
> with the ^@ representing a null character.
> Now type the characters C-a C-k C-y
> which should kill the line and then yank it back.
>
> Expected result: The line is unchanged.
> Actual result: Only the letters abc are yanked back.
> The null character and the following characters are lost.
>
> (I discovered this when I found myself unable to copy the debugger
> buffer, which happened to contain bytecode snippets which had null
> characters in them.)
>
> In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.5.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.35)
>   of 2011-01-21 on mack
> Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1038
> configured using `configure  '--with-ns''
>
> Important settings:
>    value of $LC_ALL: nil
>    value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>    value of $LC_CTYPE: en_US.UTF-8
>    value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>    value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>    value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>    value of $LC_TIME: nil
>    value of $LANG: nil
>    value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
>    locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
>    default enable-multibyte-characters: t
>
> - Harald
>
>

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