Filepath copied after find-file

Question

When I open a file in Emacs, it somehow copies the file path into my clipboard. It's not a desired behavior. How to turn it off?

I'm using GNU Emacs 24.3.1, build with Cocoa.

try `emacs -q`. Maybe it's your operating system that does that. — abo-abo, Aug 09 '13 at 12:15

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 27 '13 at 13:19

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First step would be to know "who" is copying that into the clipboard.

Is the window system clipboard we are talking about?

If so, you can do

(setq debug-on-error t)
(fset 'x-set-selection nil)

and then open a file. Hopefully the stack trace should give you a clue of what package is doing that.

edited Dec 27 '13 at 13:19

elemakil

answered Aug 09 '13 at 12:31

juanleon

Figured it out. It was me being silly expecting `M-backspace` shouldn't put them pathnames into the kill ring. Thanks for confirming it wasn't something specific of `find-file`. – katspaugh Aug 09 '13 at 14:23

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