[Openmcl-devel] Hemlock seems to strip chars from the clipboard when deleting

[Ron Garret]

; Fix brain-damaged Hemlock kill-ring behavior
(setf (value character-deletion-threshold) most-positive-fixnum)

On Jul 8, 2010, at 6:38 AM, Toomas Altosaar wrote:

> 1. Start up CCL. This appears in the Listener:
> 
> "Welcome to Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.6-dev-r13940M-trunk  (DarwinX8664)!"
> 
> 2. Double click on some text, e.g., Clozure (it becomes selected).
> 
> 3. Perform a command-v (paste) and "Clozure" appears in the Listener.
> 
> 4. Press the Delete key and remove all of Clozure.
> 
> 5. Perform a command-v again (paste). Now only "zure" appears:
> 
> ? zure
> 
> Doing this between different apps, also results in CCL/Hemlock removing 3 characters from the clipboard, e.g., copy some text from TextEdit, paste it into a Hemlock buffer, delete it, go back to the original app, and paste it there (now it's missing the 3 first characters).
> 
> Huh? Now only 1 character has gone missing? And sometimes nothing goes missing.
> 
> "Clozure" ==> "zure"
> "TextEdit" ==> "Edit" (4 chars missing)
> "Hemlock" ==> "lock"
> 
> What gives? Is this a known problem?
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