bug#71909: 30.0.60;

[Cecilio Pardo <cpardo@imayhem.com>]

On 05/10/2024 21:31, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> If you invoke "M-: (gui-get-selection 'CLIPBOARD 'TARGETS) RET" after
> copying something to the clipboard, you will see some very weird
> format names there.  For the standard formats, we convert them to
> something similar to what X Window system produces (see
> w32-selection-targets), but the rest are returned as-is.  For example,
> after copying an image from Firefox, I get this as the return value of
> the above evaluation:
> 
>    [DataObject text/html HTML\ Format text/_moz_htmlinfo text/_moz_htmlcontext application/x-moz-file-promise-url application/x-moz-file-promise-dest-filename FILE_NAMES Preferred\ DropEffect application/x-moz-nativeimage DIB Ole\ Private\ Data BITMAP nil]
> 
> There's no image/* here, only DIB and BITMAP (which correspond to
> CF_DIB and CF_BITMAP clipboard formats).  There are also a lot of
> text/* formats, but they are all non-standard, except, perhaps,
> text/html.  Do you have ideas how to select the proper format and how
> to yank the data?

> What do the x/special-* formats correspond to on Windows?

We would convert the BITMAP format to image/png, and FILE_NAMES to
x-special/gnome-copied-files, to be compatible with what org-mode does 
now. The offer to yank-media would then be text/html, image/png, and 
x-special/gnome-copied-files, ignoring the rest of formats.