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Emacs kill/copy under X versus under Windows
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Jeff Clough |
Subject: |
Emacs kill/copy under X versus under Windows |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:54:17 -0400 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) |
While dinking around with kill/yank and copy/paste to answer a question
posted earlier, I stumbled upon something that I'd like to know how to fix.
Running 22.3 on both Windows and X, I notice a difference in how Emacs
interacts with the clipboard.
Under X, killing and yanking text with the "normal" commands (such as
kill-line) only diddles the kill ring and doesn't touch the clipboard
selection. Copying text in another application does not affect what you
get when doing C-y in Emacs. C-y doesn't care about your clipboard
selection at all and neither does C-k, etc. When you *do* care about
such things, there are specific commands (like "Copy" from the menu)
that let you do things.
Under Windows, this isn't true at all. Whatever you last killed goes
straight to the clipboard, and whatever you last copied in another
application gets dumped into your buffer with a yank. What's worse, try
this in Windows:
1. Type a line of text in Emacs and do a kill-line on it.
2. Copy a different line of text from some other application.
3. Do a (car kill-ring) in emacs. See it display the text you typed
from step #1.
4. Do a C-y in emacs, this dumps in the text from step #2.
5. Do (car kill-ring) again and see that the text from #2 has magically
been added to the kill ring.
I should note that C-y, C-k and the like are all mapped to functions
with the same names on both platforms (yank and kill-line, respectively)
and doing a describe-function on these functions has no hint they should
be working any differently.
So we have different behavior between ports for I don't know what reason
(is it really assumed that someone capable of downloading and using
Emacs on their Windows box is going to be confused by the behavior found
on X systems?), and some *truly* nutty behavior under the Windows side.
Is there some way to make Emacs on Windows behave itself and ignore the
clipboard unless told otherwise, just like under X?
Jeff
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