From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 27442@debbugs.gnu.org, Hi-Angel@yandex.ru
Subject: bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2021 18:20:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lf6jqur5.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83im1nfnuc.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 06 Jul 2021 18:45:15 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> In the clipboard? supported by all the systems and all the clipboard
> varieties out there?
I don't know -- probably by the ones we care most about.
> Is it reasonable to assume that close enough time stamps necessarily
> mean we are the owner?
It's a millisecond timestamp on the clipboard -- so it's a better guess
than what we have.
>> It just makes `M-x clipboard-yank' defeat the "check for duplicates"
>> logic and always return the contents of the clipboard.
>
> But that would mean we throw away the baby together with the
> bathwater, no? Why would we want to do that?
No, this is the command `M-x clipboard-yank' only, which should always
return the clipboard contents. The DWIM stuff in this gui selection
function is for `C-y' and friends.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-06 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-21 14:29 bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional Constantine Kharlamov
2017-06-21 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-21 19:55 ` Constantine Kharlamov
2021-07-05 14:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-05 14:46 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-07-05 15:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-05 15:59 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-07-05 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-05 20:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-05 20:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-06 11:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-06 14:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-06 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-06 16:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-07-06 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-06 17:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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