From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#41168: Add variable to limit save-interprogram-paste-before-kill by size Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 17:04:49 +0300 Message-ID: <83zhafdgxq.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="60319"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 41168@debbugs.gnu.org To: ndame , ndame Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 10 16:06:10 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jXmao-000Fav-ES for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 May 2020 16:06:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54002 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXmam-0003Gb-Ml for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 May 2020 10:06:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43134) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXmag-0003GV-Hn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 May 2020 10:06:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:38619) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXmag-0006sx-8d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 May 2020 10:06:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jXmag-0000Lf-2x for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 May 2020 10:06:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 14:06:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 41168 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 41168-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B41168.15891195021209 (code B ref 41168); Sun, 10 May 2020 14:06:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41168) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 May 2020 14:05:02 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50165 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jXmZi-0000JR-8O for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 10 May 2020 10:05:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40054) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jXmZh-0000Ip-9r for 41168@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 10 May 2020 10:05:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:43497) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jXmZc-0006Xo-3z; Sun, 10 May 2020 10:04:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4649 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jXmZb-0006PL-8Z; Sun, 10 May 2020 10:04:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:180003 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 08:56:40 +0000 > From: ndame via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, > the Swiss army knife of text editors" > > 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?