[11278] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.6G: x- cut and paste
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cfields@MIT.EDU)
Mon Oct 25 23:02:20 1993
From: cfields@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 93 23:02:05 EDT
To: Desmond R Lim <drlcs@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc:
Hello! You recently reported the following problem:
>Subject: decmips 7.6G: x- cut and paste
>Date: Thu, 14 Oct 93 18:53:48 EDT
>From: Desmond R Lim <drlcs@MIT.EDU>
>
>System name: navigator
>Type and version: KN02ba 7.6G
>Display type: PMAGB-BA
>
>What were you trying to do?
>
> Cut and paste from telnet session to an emacs on VAX 3100.
>
>What's wrong:
>
> The xterm on which the telnet session was being run quit after
> lotsa cut and pastes. This occurs without any warning messages.
>
>What should have happened:
> The xterm should NOT have quit.
I managed to reproduce your problem both on a Vax and on a DECstation.
I suspect it is also a problem on a RISC/6000, though not on the Suns.
The cause of the problem is emacs, which is not following the standard
for doing X paste operations correctly. Admittedly, xterm should not
die at the first sign of trouble either. In any case this problem has
already been fixed on the Sun, and will be corrected for the other
platforms as well in the next Athena release.
Thank you for your bug report!
Craig Fields
Systems Programmer
IS/DCNS Development
