Package: emacs24 Version: 24.4+1-4.1 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss Forwarded: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=18939
A left-click in Emacs should just change the cursor position. It shouldn't be a destructive operation. But the following test shows that it sometimes modifies the PRIMARY selection. 1. Open a file containing a line, say "foo", with "emacs -Q". 2. When the cursor is at the beginning, type C-k. 3. Select text in some other window that supports the PRIMARY selection (xterm, some other Emacs window, etc.). 4. Left-click in the initial Emacs window. 5. Middle-click in some window that supports middle-click paste of the PRIMARY selection (xterm, Emacs, etc.). Instead of pasting the previously selected text, this pastes what was cut with C-k in Emacs. Note: This bug occurs very often and is very annoying, as one needs to reselect what was selected (sometimes hardly possible). Moreover the wrongly pasted text is similar to the correct text[*], meaning that if one doesn't pay attention, one gets a file with permanently incorrect data! [*] This problem precisely occurs when one wants to update some data in a file with Emacs: one cuts the old data, select the new data somewhere else, and pastes back to the Emacs window; but due to this bug, what is pasted is sometimes what was cut, i.e. the old data. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages emacs24 depends on: ii emacs24-bin-common 24.4+1-4.1 ii gconf-service 3.2.6-3 ii libacl1 2.2.52-2 ii libasound2 1.0.28-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1 ii libc6 2.19-13 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.0-2.1 ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1 ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.12-3 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3 ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-2 ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-3 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+b1 ii libgif4 4.1.6-11 ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1 ii libgnutls-deb0-28 3.3.8-5 ii libgomp1 4.9.2-10 ii libgpm2 1.20.4-6.1+b2 ii libgtk-3-0 3.14.5-1 ii libice6 2:1.0.9-1+b1 ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.3.1-11 ii libm17n-0 1.6.4-3 ii libmagickcore-6.q16-2 8:6.8.9.9-4 ii libmagickwand-6.q16-2 8:6.8.9.9-4 ii libotf0 0.9.13-2 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpng12-0 1.2.50-2+b2 ii librsvg2-2 2.40.5-1 ii libselinux1 2.3-2 ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b1 ii libtiff5 4.0.3-11 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3 ii libxft2 2.3.2-1 ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.3-1+b1 ii libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-3 ii libxpm4 1:3.5.11-1+b1 ii libxrandr2 2:1.4.2-1+b1 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.8-1+b1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 emacs24 recommends no packages. Versions of packages emacs24 suggests: ii emacs24-common-non-dfsg 24.4+1-2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
