On Sun, Nov 17 2013, Mark Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > In current emacs (24.3) select-active-regions is set to t by > default. The reply insertion code sets the region to the quoted > message to make it easy to delete (kill-region or C-w). These two > things combine to put the quoted message in the primary selection. > > This is not what the user wanted and is a privacy risk (accidental > pasting of the quoted message). We can avoid some of the problems > by let-binding select-active-regions to nil. This fixes if the > primary selection was previously in a non-emacs window but not if > it was in an emacs window. To avoid the problem in the latter case > we deactivate mark. > > One key test (which fails under many simpler "fixes") is: open emacs > 24.3 with notmuch, open 2 windows (viewing different notmuch buffers), > highlight some text in one, and then reply to a message in the > other. In many of my earlier attempts to fix this big this test fails.
I'm very happy to report that I reply to this message with an unpolluted paste buffer! Kudos Mark! > Anyway, this is the best I can manage! Too modest for such an achievement. +10 jamie.
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