On Wed, Sep 18 2013, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote: > I've just started noticing that when I reply to messages from the emacs > UI, my X clipboard is filled with the body of the reply message, > displacing whatever was in there previously. I'm not sure if this is > related to my personal emacs configuration, or some non-ideal way we're > inserting body parts in replies. However, even if it is a configuration > issue in my emacs, I suspect that there should be a better way to insert > the reply body such that there's not even a possibility that it would > leak into the users X clipboard, regardless of emacs settings. Any > thoughts? env -u DISPLAY emacs -f notmuch ;) .. OK, I'm marking this as a bug -- I witness the same behaviour. Originally I thought this relates directly to the fact that mark is set at the end of quoted text and (point) is at the beginning of buffer -- so that simple c-w can be used to remove the contents in case desired... but the X paste provides the original text, not the quoted one. Someoneā¢ has to dig (deeper) into the code for this... > jamie. Tomi