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From: lott@bogner.informatik.uni-kl.de (Christopher Lott)
Subject: kill, then copy/paste bug in 19.25, X version
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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 09:13:21 GMT
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Hi,

I hope that this bug is not too esoteric.  I have no difficulty
reproducing it at will.  Briefly, when using an Emacs window in
X, if I kill a few lines in emacs using ^K, then select some text
in the emacs window, and then type ^Y to yank in that text, not
only do I get the text which I mouse-copied, I also get substantial
amounts of text from the previous kill. 

Below I give a precise repeat-by scenario, but first our context:

SunOS 4.1.3, sparcs, emacs 19.25, X11R5 with all patches.

1.  Start emacs under X.

2.  Enter the following lines.

	testline testline testline testline
	testline testline testline testline
	testline testline testline testline
	testline testline testline testline
	testline testline testline testline
	TESTLINE TESTLINE TESTLINE TESTLINE

3.  Move the cursor to line 1 and kill the first three lines by typing
    ^K six times.

4.  Move the mouse to one of the capitalized words, click-hold the left
    mouse button, then drag the mouse to highlight the word.

5.  Move the mouse to the end of the document, click the middle button.

6.  The result which I see:

        testline testline testline testline
        testline testline testline testline
        TESTLINE TESTLINE TESTLINE TESTLINE

TESTLINE        testline testline testline testline
        testline testline testline testline
        testline testline testline testline


Judging just from what I see, looks as if some buffer is not being
terminated properly.

However, I have found a simple workaround.  You simply click-and-drag
twice before pasting.  Somehow, the second copy action terminates the
buffer (or whatever is being used) properly.

Hope that you can reproduce this as easily as I can!  Thanks
for any and all help.

chris...
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