From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: ndame <ndame@protonmail.com>, ndame <ndame@protonmail.com>
Cc: 41168@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41168: Add variable to limit save-interprogram-paste-before-kill by size
Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 17:04:49 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zhafdgxq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZGTBiZitvuxEDdh-VICfhlv0YhY0KI3zBgEbUXEp3wm08K5NdzxIYCJ0FhEvu0RONT7v4H2X6dJ4AXumoeZHUoPDIkc7-ONs1zId-jfxBJQ=@protonmail.com> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)
> Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 08:56:40 +0000
> From: ndame via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> How about a variable which allows the user to limit the size of data saved on the kill ring? Data larger than
> the limit is not copied.
>
> save-interprogram-paste-before-kill itself could specify this limit. If it's not t but a number then it's the limit as
> number of bytes or maybe kilobytes, because I imagine the user sets such a limit to at least a few hundred
> kilobytes or higher.
Sounds like a good idea. Would you like to propose a patch along
these lines?
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2020-05-10 8:56 bug#41168: Add variable to limit save-interprogram-paste-before-kill by size ndame via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-05-10 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-06-13 12:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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