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| author | Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> | 2017-02-11 19:47:55 -0500 |
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| committer | Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> | 2017-06-29 19:40:23 -0400 |
| commit | c87c87fcc361494815bbd1d92f450b0b80a3ecbb (patch) | |
| tree | 60d7ae515b92944d1e90772df3ae5dac05b5c715 /doc/emacs/killing.texi | |
| parent | 0ae28c71c739dfecbe94a5ff6786e81021d2d1cf (diff) | |
| download | emacs-c87c87fcc361494815bbd1d92f450b0b80a3ecbb.tar.gz | |
Escape NUL bytes in X selections (Bug#6991)
* lisp/term/w32-win.el (w32--set-selection):
* lisp/select.el (xselect--encode-string): Replace NUL bytes with
"\0".
* doc/emacs/killing.texi: Document new behavior.
* etc/NEWS (times): Announce it.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/emacs/killing.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/killing.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/killing.texi b/doc/emacs/killing.texi index 47de0531292..0b5efd04a18 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/killing.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/killing.texi @@ -519,6 +519,10 @@ when exiting Emacs; if you wish to prevent Emacs from transferring data to the clipboard manager, change the variable @code{x-select-enable-clipboard-manager} to @code{nil}. + Since strings containing NUL bytes are usually truncated when passed +through the clipboard, Emacs replaces such characters with ``\0'' +before transfering them to the system's clipboard. + @vindex select-enable-primary @findex clipboard-kill-region @findex clipboard-kill-ring-save |