Re: w32-get-clipboard-data

[Stephen Coda]

On Thursday, 3 September 2015 15:38:38 UTC+1, Eli Zaretskii  wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 02:07:39 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Stephen Coda <stephencoda@googlemail.com>
> > 
> > It also looks as if I can paste when Chrome is not open.
> 
> I think that's the reason for the problem, right there.  I'm guessing
> Chrome has some paste-blocking feature or some clipboard-related
> feature which you need to customize or even turn off.  (Sorry, I don't
> use Chrome, so I cannot give you more details.)

It required adding emacs.exe to a list of things that were allowed to use the 
clipboard while chrome was open. Since chrome is a connection to the internet 
and cutting and pasting from that place constitutes a potential security risk. 
I think that's the reason, our sys admin sorted the setting  for me. 

Kind regards,
Steve