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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 15109@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15109: 24.3.50; doc of `x-get-selection, `selection-converter-alist',	`xselect-convert-to-*'
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:36:12 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dc2d04f5-4781-4ebf-845d-71a6b485255a@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<83zjlyubjn.fsf@gnu.org>>

> I see no reason to have selection-converter-alist documented
> on Windows, since the functionality it encompasses is not available
> there, and the DATA-TYPE argument to x-get-selection is completely
> ignored on MS-Windows.

In that case, why define `selection-converter-alist' at all on
Windows?  And why not rename it to `x-selection-converter-alist',
if it is X-specific?

On the other hand, although `x-get-selection' has that prefix,
it _is_ defined and used on Windows.  Likewise, `x-set-selection'.
Code that makes use of the secondary selection will make use of
such functions, for instance.

So maybe they should lose their `x-' prefix (or suitable unprefixed
synonyms or wrapper functions be provided).

IOW, things do not seem so cut-and-dried as you describe them.
In the past we have renamed `x-defined-colors' to `defined-colors' etc.
Sounds like maybe some more such cleanup is in order.





       reply	other threads:[~2014-02-10 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2014-02-10 21:36               ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-02-11  3:36                 ` bug#15109: 24.3.50; doc of `x-get-selection, `selection-converter-alist', `xselect-convert-to-*' Eli Zaretskii
2014-02-11  3:50                 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-16  6:49 Drew Adams
2014-02-08  5:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-10  0:27   ` Drew Adams
2014-02-10  2:41     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-10  2:47       ` Drew Adams
2014-02-10  2:49       ` Drew Adams
2014-02-10  2:54         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-02-10  3:09           ` Drew Adams
2014-02-10 17:23             ` Eli Zaretskii

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