itz> Sometimes when I select a piece of text in another program (xterm itz> or tkman or mozilla are examples, but it seems it can happen with itz> any program) I am unable to paste the selection into emacs. itz> Instead, doing the "yank" command in emacs always pastes emacs' itz> last "kill". When I do "Alt-: (x-get-selection-internal 'PRIMARY itz> 'STRING)" the result is also emacs' last kill, even though I just itz> selected something in xterm a second before that. And once this itz> happens, is seems impossible to get the right behavior in that itz> session of emacs - the only way to set it right is to quit emacs itz> and restart it.
Simon> Just an idea -- do you use KDE, and in particular Klipper? No, neither KDE nor Gnome. (nor yet anything that huge and complicated, with the exception of Emacs of course :) Sawfish for the WM, but IIRC it happens with wmaker too (I'll have to test that one of these days). -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.
