From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 07:25:58 +0000 (+0300) Subject: * etc/PROBLEMS: Document problems with pasting on MS-Windows X-Git-Tag: emacs-25.0.90~1224^2~13 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7b532d3e26197e5d4d65d1442c34ce7e27cf9d0b;p=emacs.git * etc/PROBLEMS: Document problems with pasting on MS-Windows --- diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS index d07e7cf9df7..1b4831809e2 100644 --- a/etc/PROBLEMS +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS @@ -2036,6 +2036,14 @@ XKeymacs Version 3.47, deactivating XKeymacs when Emacs is active is not enough to avoid its messing with the keyboard input. Exiting XKeymacs completely is reported to solve the problem. +** Pasting from Windows clipboard into Emacs doesn't work. + +This was reported to be the result of an anti-virus software blocking +the clipboard-related operations when a Web browser is open, for +security reasons. The solution is to close the Web browser while +working in Emacs, or to add emacs.exe to the list of applications that +are allowed to use the clipboard when the Web browser is open. + ** Windows 95 and networking. To support server sockets, Emacs loads ws2_32.dll. If this file is