GNU bug report logs - #8400
24.0.50; Strange selection behavior in Gnus Article buffer

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>

Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:06:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#8400: 24.0.50;	Strange selection behavior in Gnus Article buffer
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 20:56:45 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> M-w and other keyboard gestures don't set PRIMARY in Emacs 24.

But like David De La Harpe Golden said, this may just be because of a
bad combination of the

(setq select-active-regions nil
      mouse-drag-copy-region t
      x-select-enable-primary t
      x-select-enable-clipboard nil)

options.  It does seem to affect quite a few people, though, and only in
the article buffer (with the automatically updating Date header).

Doing the settings above makes the problem disappear, but it's
unfortunate that other combination(s) of the options has such a
confusing outcome, I think.
      
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