Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sometimes when I select a piece of text in another program (xterm or tkman > or mozilla are examples, but it seems it can happen with any program) I am > unable to paste the selection into emacs. Instead, doing the "yank" > command in emacs always pastes emacs' last "kill". When I do > "Alt-: (x-get-selection-internal 'PRIMARY 'STRING)" the result is also > emacs' last kill, even though I just selected something in xterm a second > before that. And once this happens, is seems impossible to get the right > behavior in that session of emacs - the only way to set it right is to > quit emacs and restart it.
Just an idea -- do you use KDE, and in particular Klipper?

