-----Original Message----- From: Ben Wing [mailto:ben＠666.com] Sent: 17 July 2000 23:33 To: Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] Cc: Vin Shelton; Adrian Aichner; XEmacs Patches; Alastair J. Houghton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Enhanced clipboard support bug fixes (for Alastair J. Houghton) Michael -- first of all, make sure to cc people you are writing about if you want them to see your message. otherwise they may not see it -- e.g. alastair is not on xemacs-review, and [for awhile at least] not on xemacs-beta. in

> This is beyond annoying behavior: the XEmacs in CVS is *unusable* on > X. I fully support Alastair's patches in general, but they have gone > in without *any* testing on X, we know they don't work on X, and > therefore we should back out the changes, and test out a the patch for > this before it goes in. I'm fully willing to help do this. However, > currently I have to back out *two* patches in my workspace to get a > working XEmacs. > > Vin> Now exactly what problem are you seeing? > > I see the same problem everyone has been seeing: > > Signaling: (selection-conversion-error "selection owner couldn't convert" CLIPBOARD _EMACS_INTERNAL) > ... > > in various circumstances associated with selection, wiping and yanking > text.