Can't copy and paste entirely within XEmacs

Unless I'm seriously confused, the patch in <http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-patches/200204/msg00193.html>;, which includes the change described as * select.c (Fget_selection_internal): return Qnil if XEmacs owns the selection and it does not need coercion. Document connection with interprogram-paste-function. breaks copy and paste within the native windows version of XEmacs. If I run a XEmacs with -vanilla, select something in *scratch*, control-Insert to copy it, and shift-Insert to paste it somewhere else in *scratch*, XEmacs tells me there is no clipboard selection. The problem is that get-selection-internal is returning nil if it finds a selection in the local cache. That makes get-selection and get-clipboard both return nil which makes yank-clipboard-selection fail. I understand the problem that you were trying to fix here, but I don't think this is the correct fix. Perhaps it needs to be made conditional on not Windows, but that seems a bit ugly. I also don't understand why get-selection-internal returns nil if and only if select-coerce doesn't change the selection get-selection-internal found in the local cache. If get-selection-internal wants to ignore the local cache, it seems that it should do so even if select-coerce decides to fiddle with the coding of what it found there. Mike Alexander <mailto:mta＠arbortext.com> Arbortext, Inc. +1-734-997-0200