Subject: emacs22: emacs copypasting buffer drops data Package: emacs22 Version: 22.2+2-2 Severity: normal
*** Please type your report below this line *** Occasionally(but repeatably), when cutting and pasting using C-k to cut a bunch of lines of text, and then using C-y to paste, emacs 'forgets' a whole bunch of the lines on paste, in effect 'missing' some of C-y's output. 'Undo'ing (using C-_) can restore the 'missing' cut text usually, by undoing both the paste, and the cut. An example of how this could happen is if I cut lines 10-30, and tried to paste on line 3500 of a text document. Upon paste, I'd get maybe 15 lines. What doesn't appear to be happening is problems with cutting (say, hitting the space bar and then continuing to cut, an understandable user input error). I did not notice this with emacs21, and high system activity may be involved(my computer is slow). However it shouldn't matter, since this has already caused some minor data loss, and has the potential to not only cause data loss, but do so in a hard-to-see way (if you're only missing some lines, it may seem that you've pasted everything, when in fact you have not). Not 100% sure, but it seems like if I paste to the same spot I cut from it's ok. So far I've only observed it in a rather large(~70,000 line) textfile, so it could be involved in large files. But then again this is because most of the time I use emacs it's this one file, so it would make sense if it only appeared there for me. Jeff Cliff http://thedark.jabberwocky.ca -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages emacs22 depends on: ii emacs22-bin-common 22.2+2-2 The GNU Emacs editor's shared, arc ii libasound2 1.0.16-2 ALSA library ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgif4 4.1.6-4 library for GIF images (library) ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libncurses5 5.6+20080308-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-1 PNG library - runtime ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Session Management library ii libtiff4 3.8.2-10 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libx11-6 2:1.1.4-2 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxmu6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxpm4 1:3.5.7-1 X11 pixmap library ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii xaw3dg 1.5+E-15 Xaw3d widget set ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime emacs22 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- Free e-mail accounts at http://zworg.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
