Subject: bug#8400: 24.0.50; Strange selection behavior in Gnus Article buffer

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 23:58:13 +0300

> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 20:44:49 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > M-w and other keyboard gestures don't set PRIMARY in Emacs 24.
> 
> But it's the contents from PRIMARY that ends up in the buffer when you
> say `C-y', apparently.

Not by default.  C-y should give you the clipboard or the kill-ring.
Isn't that what you reported?