Re: [Bug: 21.4.12] Cut-n-paste to other applications broken under Gnome/X

Glen> XEmacs does not transfer the latest copied text to the Glen> Gnome/X/Sawfish desktop clipboard. I bet you don't use the toolbar copy button or M-x toolbar-copy. Ditto for cuts. Try it, you'll like it. If it doesn't work, that would be a bug. Glen> I would be really surprised if no-one else had reported this Glen> bug. It's not a bug. Providing a separate UI for clipboard manipulation is a _courtesy_ to other programs, which are unlikely to be able to do anything sensible with the (from their point of view) mostly random data in the Emacs kill ring. Of course (I'm assuming that you touch the mouse somewhere in the cut and paste process), the right way to handle ephemeral copies like this is the PRIMARY selection. From the user's point of view, select text (with the mouse or with XEmacs region-setting commands, I think you need zmacs-regions non-nil), then paste with the middle button. Don't GNOME/Sawfish applications grok that? Cf. http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.