idle and the devil

[Kragen Sitaker]

Tim Peters <tim.one at comcast.net> writes:
> [Siegfried Gonzi, reports widespread file corruption after copy+paste,
>  under both IDLE and Emacs on Windows XP]
> 
> Try another machine.  I've never heard of this before, and that it occurs
> under two programs for you says "machine-specific failure mode" to me.
> Maybe a flaky memory chip, maybe a bad spot on a disk, maybe a driver
> conflict, maybe a background program going insane, can't say.  But when you
> see problems nobody else sees, nobody else sees them <0.9 wink>.

The wheel-mouse hypothesis sounds like the answer to me; it explains
why only these two programs have the problem (because they come from
Unix, where middle-button-paste is the expected behavior) and explains
exactly the described corruption.

You can fix this problem in XEmacs by putting this line in your .emacs file:
(global-set-key '(button2) 'undefined)

The incantation for GNU Emacs is slightly different.

I don't use IDLE, so I don't know how to fix it in IDLE.