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From: kifer@CS.SunySB.EDU (Michael Kifer)
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Subject: 20.1 b2  x-get-selection seems broken
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 20:38:12 -0500
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If I select something outside xemacs window (say, in xterm),
(x-get-selection) causes an error:

selection owner couldn't convert: COMPOUND_TEXT


Basically, cut/paste only works when selection was made in another xemacs
window. 

This is sunos 4.1.3, X11R6, by the way


	--michael  

