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bug#6801: 24.0.50; M-w C-y gives an error under OS X
From: |
Joel Holveck |
Subject: |
bug#6801: 24.0.50; M-w C-y gives an error under OS X |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Aug 2010 03:45:29 -0700 |
When using OS X, if I press M-w then C-y, then an error is raised:
Quit: "pasteboard doesn't contain valid data"
(Cause and workaround follows recipe.)
The recipe is what's in the "Recent input" section below, but here it is
for convenience. From emacs -Q, type foo. Select it using C-a C-SPC
C-n. Kill it using C-w. Yank using C-y. At this point, instead of
yanking, Emacs raises the error:
Quit: "pasteboard doesn't contain valid data"
From what I can tell, Emacs calls deactivate-mark during the C-w
process. When the mark is deactivated (as part of deactivate-mark), if
select-active-regions is set, then Emacs calls x-own-selection-internal
(the one defined in nsselect.m). At some point, it seems that
x-own-selection-internal clears the pasteboard instead of pasting it,
even though it's being called with reasonable arguments.
Note that running (x-own-selection-internal 'PRIMARY "foo") also
(according to Pasteboard Inspector) clears out the pasteboard, instead
of setting it to hold "foo". The other mechanism used to access the
pasteboard, ns-store-cut-buffer-internal, seems to work fine. (That's
what C-k, for example, uses. C-w and family also will call
ns-store-cut-buffer-internal, but then call x-own-selection-internal
(when the mark is deactivated).
My workaround was to add to .emacs.el:
(when (eq window-system 'ns)
(setq select-active-regions nil))
And yes, I know I'm running a development version of Emacs. Is it
reasonable to use report-emacs-bug for this?
In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.4.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.32)
of 2010-08-04 on frigg.piquan.org
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1038
configured using `configure '--with-ns''
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: nil
value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
value of $LC_TIME: nil
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
default enable-multibyte-characters: t
Major mode: Lisp Interaction
Minor modes in effect:
tooltip-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent input:
f o o C-a C-SPC C-n C-w C-y ESC x r e p o r t - e m
a c s - b u g <return>
Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Mark set
byte-code: End of buffer
Mark set
Quit: "pasteboard doesn't contain valid data"
Load-path shadows:
None found.
Features:
(shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr message rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode
mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums
mm-util mail-prsvr mailabbrev mail-utils gmm-utils mailheader emacsbug
tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel ns-win easymenu
tool-bar dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar
rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mldrag mouse jit-lock font-lock
syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang
vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek
romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese
case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev loaddefs button
minibuffer faces cus-face files text-properties overlay md5 base64
format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable
backquote make-network-process ns multi-tty emacs)
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