Re: [O] org-copy-visible does not work with x-select-enable-primary

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

address@hidden writes:

> Hello.
>
>
> I use
>
>    emacs -Q -l ~/.emacs.debug
>
> with the ~/.emacs.debug file containing only
>
>    (add-to-list 'load-path "/home/cochard/Org/Coch-git/org-mode/lisp")
>
> I tried 2 versions of emacs, giving:
>
>    Emacs : GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
>    3.18.9) of 2016-04-11 on buildvm-25.phx2.fedoraproject.org Package:
>    Org mode version 9.1.14 (release_9.1.14-908-gf1269e @
>    /home/cochard/Org/Coch-git/org-mode/lisp/)
>
>    Emacs : GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
>    3.18.9) of 2018-05-30 Package: Org mode version 9.1.14
>    (release_9.1.14-908-gf1269e @
>    /home/cochard/Org/Coch-git/org-mode/lisp/)
>
> In both cases, org-copy-visible works as I expect: if I select region
> containing a folded tree, use 'M-x org-copy-visible', then put the
> cursor elsewhere and use 'M-x org-yank', only the visible part is
> copied.
>
> Now, if I append the line
>
>    (setq x-select-enable-primary t) 
>
> to ~/.emacs.debug, the whole tree is copied instead of the expected
> result, that is, including the invisible parts, also for the two emacs
> versions.
>
> NB: For emacs 26, as the manual says that 
>
>    [x-select-enable-primary] is an alias for ‘select-enable-primary’.
>    This variable is obsolete since 25.1; use ‘select-enable-primary’
>    instead.
>
> I have also tried (setq select-enable-primary t) but this fails in the
> same way.

You may want to report it to Emacs Devel instead. Since it works in some
cases, it may not be related to Org.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou