At 06:03 PM 6/4/99 -0400, Dmitry Yaitskov wrote: >Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas(a)home.com&gt; wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've noticed that the behaviour of yank-clipboard-selection has >> changed in b15 as opposed to b14 - now, if the function is invoked >> while there is a selection active, *it* is yanked instead of the >> clipboard contents. IMHO this is a bug, although I'm not sure - the >> doc string is ambiguous, as it says: >> >> "Insert the current Clipboard selection at point." >> >> It is unclear what is meant by "Clipboard selection". Can somebody >> please enlighten me - is it a bug or a feature? (in any case, it is >> probably something that only matters under NT, as under X AFAIK the >> selection *is* the "clipboard")... thanks. > >Sorry for followup to my own post. Seems like the bug is in the >mswindows-get-clipboard function, which if I'm not mistaken copies the >current selection into the clipboard if there is one - and it >shouldn't do it. I can't be too sure as the problem seems to lie in >the select-msw.c file, and I do not understand the code there. In >particular, there is a new (in b15) function mswindows_own_selection >which obviously is invoked by something, but I couldn't find any >reference to it in any other sources... Can somebody who knows that >code (Andy Piper?) please take a look at it? Thanks. I fly to San Fransico in 4 hours so don't have time right now. The change is possibly intentional as the windows select behaviour should now mimic the X behaviour. This is not necessarily completely what you want but is a lot better than what we had before.