This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Please describe as succinctly as possible: - What happened. - What you thought should have happened. - Precisely what you were doing at the time. Please also include any C or lisp back-traces that you may have. ================================================================ Dear Bug Team! 1. Create a new buffer and insert the text "ab". 2. Type C-x 52 to create a new frame. 3. Now there are two frames and each frame has the point after the letter "b". 4. In one frame, drag the mouse over the "a" so that only "a" is highlighted. 5. Move the mouse over the other frame, but do not type or click any buttons in the frame. 6. Move the mouse into an xterm window. 7. Click the middle button. It will paste "ab" into the xterm, but since you only highlighted the letter "a", it should have pasted only "a". The manual says: Note that the manual says that once a region of text is selected, you can paste it. But XEmacs pastes some different text as shown by the list of steps I described above. Here is a workaround: Skip step 5. I.e., after highlighting "a", move the mouse to the xterm without the mouse ever passing over the second XEmacs frame. Then when you paste, it pastes "a". So passing the mouse over the second XEmacs frame somehow corrupts the user's intentions as expressed by what text he dragged the mouse over. It is difficult for me to get into the habit of using the workaround I described above. I often have two frames holding the same buffer. This allows me to work in different places in the same file. Often I need to paste from one of these frames to an xterm. But when I do that, I often accidentally pass the mouse over the second frame, and then it pastes the wrong text. Sometimes it is difficult to repair the error in the xterm or other application. Sometimes, I have to try pasting again, which is tedious. Maybe this bug happens because when you paste in the xterm, that causes the window server to ask XEmacs what text should be pasted. XEmacs returns whatever text is in the region of the buffer in which the user last dragged. But the buffer actually has two regions. In one frame the region holds the text "a", but in the other frame, the point is after the "b", so the region in that frame holds the text "ab". XEmacs chooses whichever frame was most recently used. In the steps above that reproduce the bug, the most recent frame has "ab" in the region and so it pastes "ab" into the xterm. But I think it is wrong for XEmacs to pick the most recent frame. Instead it should pick the frame where the user highlighted. ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: Linux eeyore 2.4.17-rc1 #2 Sun Dec 16 17:50:34 EST 2001 i686 unknown ./configure '--with-sound=none,native' '--cflags=-O2 -g -Wall' '--with-x11' '--extra-verbose' '--with-site-lisp' '--statedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info/xemacs-21.4.6' '--prefix=/usr' '--error-checking=none' '--debug=no' '--dynamic' '--without-postgresql' '--with-gpm=no' '--with_menubars=lucid' '--with_scrollbars=lucid' '--with_dialogs=athena' '--docdir=/usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.6/i386-debian-linux/nomule/' '--package-path=~/.xemacs:~/.xemacs/packages:~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages::/usr/share/xemacs21/packages:/usr/share/xemacs21/site-packages' 'i386-debian-linux' XEmacs 21.4.6 "Common Lisp" configured for `i386-debian-linux'. Compilation / Installation: Source code location: /home/dres/project/debian/current/xemacs21/xemacs-21.4.6 Installation prefix: /usr Operating system description file: `s/linux.h' Machine description file: `m/intel386.h' Compiler: gcc -O2 -g -Wall Relocating allocator for buffers: no GNU version of malloc: yes - Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library. Linking with `-Xlinker -znocombreloc'. - Consider configuring with --pdump. Window System: Compiling in support for the X window system: - X Windows headers location: /usr/X11R6/include - X Windows libraries location: /usr/X11R6/lib - Handling WM_COMMAND properly. Compiling in support for the Athena widget set: - Athena headers location: X11/Xaw - Athena library to link: Xaw Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Athena dialog boxes. Using Athena native widgets. TTY: Compiling in support for ncurses. Images: Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin). Compiling in support for XPM images. 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