Re: Toggling select-enable-clipboard & select-enable-primary prevents org-copy-visible to work

[Ihor Radchenko]

Alain.Cochard@unistra.fr writes:

> When my .emacs contains only the following:
>
> (custom-set-variables
>  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
>  ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>  ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>  '(select-enable-clipboard nil)
>  '(select-enable-primary t)
>  )    
>
> then org-copy-visible does not work properly: when yanking, whether it
> be with 'yank' or 'org-yank', the invisible parts are also yanked.
>
> Is it normal?  After all, the emacs manual says:

This is not normal, and I can reproduce the issue.
However, it does not look like Org is doing anything wrong. We call
kill-new with the correct value containing only visible part of the
buffer.

I suggest you to file a bug report to Emacs itself using M-x report-emacs-bug
In the report, you can cite this email.

Below, I am also detailing steps to reproduce to help Emacs devs debug
the problem:

1. Create bug.el with the following contents:
----
(custom-set-variables
 '(select-enable-clipboard nil)
 '(select-enable-primary t))
(defun my/copy-const (beg end)
  (interactive "r")
  (setq deactivate-mark t)
  (kill-new "Constant string"))
----
2. Create bug.org with the following contents:
----
* headline
Hidden text inside
* another headline
----
3. emacs -Q -l /path/to/bug.el /path/to/bug.org
4. S-<TAB>
5. M-x my/copy-const
6. C-y

Expected: "Constant string" is inserted
Observed: Selected region is inserted.


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