On 1 February 2012 10:27, Jonathan Corbet <corbet-ft(a)lwn.net> wrote:
So I finally got around to updating the Rawhide system after my last
round
of travel. When yum informed me that there were 1300 packages to update,
I got a little worried. But things actually mostly work, modulo a suspend
problem that I want to investigate further when time allows.
One thing has changed, though, and it drives me nuts. The Emacs "yank"
command has, since time immemorial, yanked text from the X clipboard if a
selection had been made with the mouse. It worked whether that selection
was done within an Emacs window, or in another application altogether.
Now it doesn't; one has to explicitly place text into that more
Windows-like selection area with a "copy" command of some type or other,
or something like a kill-ring-save command for selections within Emacs.
Actually it doesn't always... it could choose from what is highlighted
OR what is in its own copy buffer. I have had it randomly choose one
or the other at times. Looking at the emacs faq I think they have been
making it more sticky to one behaviour or another.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CopyAndPaste
So I can't answer if it is soemthing new in X or EMacs but it looks
like there are ways to now fix it to which version of selection you
want.
(Sorry, I'm not good enough at X to use the right terms for the
different
clipboard/selection areas).
Does anybody know if this is an intended behavioral change in Emacs, and
if there's any way to get back to the way things used to be?
Thanks,
jon
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