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Thu, 06 Nov 2003

Thu Nov 6 15:52:46 2003 More progress on emacs & cut/paste

At last, I've found some reproducible behavior:

If from emacs 19.34, you repeatedly select the same region of text, and that region ends in a newline, the Windows Clipboard is unchanged the first time, but the text appears the second time.

If you do the same thing, but the region does not end in a newline, the behavior is similar, but the text appears the THIRD time.

It doesn't seem to matter whether you select it with C-k C-y, set-mark C-f .... M-w, or just mouse selection.

So the correct way to cut-n-paste a URL is to select it and hit M-w TWICE.

I determined this by using C-c on the Windows side to load the Windows Clipboard with known text before trying to pick up anything in Emacs.

I had noticed before that "the third time is the charm", so I think this behavior is consistent across sessions.

On the other hand, cut/paste from Emacs 21.3 (GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.9, X toolkit) of 2003-11-03 on denali) now seems to work exactly the way it should. This is different from what it did the last time I tried it, on Monday afternoon. (I tried it at home Mon eve, and it worked then.)

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