bug#8400: 24.0.50; Strange selection behavior in Gnus Article buffer

[David De La Harpe Golden]

On 04/04/11 12:51, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen<lmi@gnus.org>
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> > Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:24:55 +0200
> > Mail-Copies-To: never
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii<eliz@gnu.org>  writes:
> >
> > > So what is the bug? that C-y gave you PRIMARY or that it was different
> > > from the kill ring and the clipboard?
> >
> > The bug is that `C-y' gives me a text I didn't `M-w'.
>
> That's the documented effect of setting x-select-enable-primary to a
> non-nil value, AFAIK.  I think we can close this bug, then.

Yeah. If x-select-enable-primary is non-nil, then as well as C-y getting 
from primary, C-w/M-w also set primary. However, if you've also asked 
for primary to be set by some other means and used those other means, 
then C-y will sometimes quite correctly give you the text from primary 
that got there by means other than M-w.

I still haven't quite convinced myself that the text Stephen Berman was 
getting with his mix of settings was the expected one even given those 
settings. But on the whole, I think the main bug here was the docs bug.