emacs reply fills X clipboard with reply message body

[Tomi Ollila]

On Thu, Sep 19 2013, Mark Walters <markwalters1009 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have looked at this but haven't fully worked out what is going on.
>
> Tomi found (on irc) that putting a (select-active-regions nil) to line
> 212 of notmuch-mua.el solves the problem.

You found that it was select-active-regions what to try ...

> My testing shows that putting a (let ((select-active-regions nil))
> around the lines 224-227 in notmuch-mua.el also solves the problem.
>
> However, when trying to narrow the problem I see some odd behaviour: if
> you put the let just around the message-cite-original line then the
> following happens:
>
> if the primary selection is in some non-emacs window (eg an xterm) then
> the bug does not show up but if the primary selection is in the emacs
> window and then you initiate the reply then the bug does show up. 
>
> We could just try one of the above two fixes but it could be papering
> over something.

Yes, such duct-taping something is probably not the best approach;
we could use that as a "temporary" solution but you know what happens
with these "temporary" solutions.

Also, doing these ad-hoc testing switching between emacs 23 & 24 and
something doing "mouse-draggin" or "shift-selection" (*) and other 
times C-SPC and then moving cursor (and forgetting which approach is
tried get things confusing).

(*) mouse-dragging & shift-selection taken from the documentation string
of variable select-active-regions. It seems that 'only is the value 
I personally want to use there....

... have to try the 'only option -- and also disabling transient-mark-mode
-- how to do that is a question (the docstring is a bit confusing and it
seems although I have (transient-mark-mode t) it is enabled -- how to
know transient-mark-mode is enabled is also a bit of mystery to me :/


Forget my mml-quote-reqion -comment in my previous mail. although the
diagnose was wrong the cure was working ;/


> Best wishes
>
> Mark

Tomi

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> On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 18 2013, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I've just started noticing that when I reply to messages from the emacs
>>> UI, my X clipboard is filled with the body of the reply message,
>>> displacing whatever was in there previously.  I'm not sure if this is
>>> related to my personal emacs configuration, or some non-ideal way we're
>>> inserting body parts in replies.  However, even if it is a configuration
>>> issue in my emacs, I suspect that there should be a better way to insert
>>> the reply body such that there's not even a possibility that it would
>>> leak into the users X clipboard, regardless of emacs settings.  Any
>>> thoughts?
>>
>> env -u DISPLAY emacs -f notmuch ;)
>>
>>
>> .. OK, I'm marking this as a bug -- I witness the same behaviour.
>>
>> Originally I thought this relates directly to the fact that mark
>> is set at the end of quoted text and (point) is at the beginning of
>> buffer -- so that simple c-w can be used to remove the contents in
>> case desired... but the X paste provides the original text, not the
>> quoted one.
>>
>> Someone™ has to dig (deeper) into the code for this...
>>
>>> jamie.
>>
>> Tomi
>>
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