[3688] in Athena Bugs
cut and paste from xterm to emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kevles@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Nov 20 17:02:24 1989
From: kevles@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 89 17:01:59 -0500
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
from a pVax running 6.3B
The sequence: I used the mouse to cut a few lines from an emacs buffer and
pasted them into an xterm. Shortly thereafter, I used the mouse the cut
from an xterm and paste into my emacs buffer. BUT instead of getting the
lines which were highlighted in the xterm, I got the lines which I had
previously cut and pasted from emacs to a different xterm.
I then pasted into a second xterm, and got the highlighted lines correctly.
But I still get the incorrect lines when I try the same paste operation
into my emacs buffer.
Ok. Next I marked a new line in my emacs buffer, with my mouse, and
pasted it successfully into a new place in my emacs buffer. (It pasted
where the square cursor was, not where the mouse cursor was; I really don't
know if it's supposed to do that or not.) I then tried to paste that same
line into an xterm. Instead, it pasted the stuff that had previously
been highlighted in the xterm! That is, the stuff I had tried unsuccessfully
to paste into emacs. That is, apparently the mouse's cut buffer, when
going to the xterm, ignored what I had cut within emacs?
To recap, in case you're getting confused. (*I*'m getting confused...)
cut A from emacs. paste A to xterm.
cut B from xterm. paste to emacs, but get A pasted, not B.
paste to xterm, get B successfully.
paste to emacs, still get A pasted, not B.
cut C from emacs. paste C in emacs.
paste in xterm, get B pasted.
There. That's all the operations in sequence. Nothing left out. Several
xterms were involved; it didn't seem to make a difference which one
I used for cutting or pasting.
I also did some cutting and pasting within emacs during this time, using
C-K and C-Y. Sorry, I'm not sure where those fit in. But I'm not sure if
they're pertinent, either.
I hope that's enough for you to go on!
--Beth
