[7010] in Athena Bugs
Didn't anyone fix emacs's selection code?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jan 31 19:04:26 1991
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 1991 19:03:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: jonnyc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Consultant jonnyc told user navneet that there is a bug in pasting from
emacs to ez:
There is a bug which prevents cut-and-paste between EZ and emacs.
Everything works fine when something is highlighted into the cut or
copy buffer of EZ, and then pasted into emacs window. However, if you
attempt to cut-and-paste from an emacs window into an ez window, the
emacs window will die, and the ez window will stay on your screen but
will be useless, and have to be killed off by the window manager.
Last time I checked, this was because the Selection handling code in GNU
Emacs predates the ICCCM INCR property to cut big selections up into
smaller ones, and various other properties to control memory allocation
in selection.
Didn't this bug get fixed?
It's kind of serious.
It's not in my code, but makes my code look bad.
What's the deal?
-wdc
