Re: Cannot copy/cut from emacs

[Tak Ota]

After rebuilding emacs with your change again I'm having hard time
reproducing the problem.  Let me spend some more time on this.

-Tak

Sat, 3 Jul 2004 09:14:10 +0900 (JST): Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> wrote:

> In article <address@hidden>, Tak Ota <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > 2004-07-01  Kenichi Handa  <address@hidden>
> >     * w32select.c (Fw32_set_clipboard_data): Update `nbytes' correctly
> >     after getting a new string by pre-write-conversion.
> 
> > This change breaks copying from emacs to the system clipboard.
> > The newly added following "+ 1" garble the clipboard content when
> > emacs performs kill/copy operation.
> 
> >             nbytes = SBYTES (string) + 1;
> 
> > Removing the "+ 1" restores the correct operation.
> 
> Hmm, strange.  How does it "garble the clipboard content"?
> 
> At the beginning of Fw32_set_clipboard_data, nbytes is set
> as this:
> 
>   nbytes = SBYTES (string) + 1;
> 
> So, I installed the above change to make nbytes contain the
> terminating null even when pre-write-conversion is called.
> 
> Please try:
> 
> (coding-system-put selection-coding-sytem 'pre-write-conversion nil)
> 
> Does it change the behaviour?
> 
> ---
> Ken'ichi HANDA
> address@hidden