From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 47032@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47032: 26.3; doc of `interprogram-paste-function'
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 23:46:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SA2PR10MB4474A27C739134C43C8E86D7F3929@SA2PR10MB4474.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
The doc string and (elisp) `Low-Level Kill Ring' say that the function
value of this var can return a "list of strings", to support window
systems that support multiple selections.
Is this a Lisp list of file-name strings? What kind of multiselection
in MS Windows would result in such a list being obtained and returned
by the function value of the var?
I tried this in Windows Explorer, thinking that it might give me such a
list:
1. Select all files in a folder (`C-a'). Or use Control + click to
select several files.
2. Shift + right-click and choose `Copy as Path'.
But (funcall interprogram-paste-function) then returns a string that's
the contatenation of the (absolute) file names, with each name enclosed
in " chars and with those double-quoted names separated by newline chars.
Is that what was meant by a "list of strings"? I'm guessing no, and
that some method of obtaining a Lisp list of strings from multiselection
of file names is intended. But what method, for example?
And if that really was what was meant by a "list of strings" then maybe
that doc could be clarified, because the way it is now I expected a Lisp
list of strings that are (absolute) file names.
In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
of 2019-08-29
Repository revision: 96dd0196c28bc36779584e47fffcca433c9309cd
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.19041
Configured using:
`configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
--without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-09 23:46 Drew Adams [this message]
2021-03-10 12:55 ` bug#47032: 26.3; doc of `interprogram-paste-function' Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-20 8:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-20 10:03 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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