Re: select-active-regions, Emacs not X

[David De La Harpe Golden]

On 30/08/10 19:44, Andreas Röhler wrote:

> emacs -Q
> with empty buffer, insert
>
> foo
> (kill-new (buffer-substring-no-properties 1 4)) asdf
>
> eval before "asdf"
> push-mark there --thats done in my programm exchange-point-and-mark--
> move cursor down - region gets highlighted
>
> yank

By which you mean C-y?  Or mouse-2 ?  They're not equivalent with the 
recent defaults (quite deliberately).

> ==> asdf

I get foo, at least with yank.

Are you running KDE by any chance?  Its clipboard daemon, 'klipper' has 
a (non-default) setting that actually synchronises the selection 
(primary) and clipboard which might cause the symptoms you describe.