bug#58527: 29.0.50; emacs cannot insert links from clipboard (macos)

bug#58527: 29.0.50; emacs cannot insert links from clipboard (macos)

[Sam Steingold]

Select text with a link on a web page.
Copy it to the clipboard.
Paste it into, say, a google doc - the link is preserved.
Paste it into Emacs (C-y) - only the text is inserted, not the link,
even in org model which can handle links.

moreover,

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(mapcar (lambda (cell)
          (gui-get-selection 'CLIPBOARD (car cell)))
        selection-converter-alist)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

returns identical strings, so, apparently, emacs cannot extract text
with links on Mac.

I am away from X, so I cannot check if the same problem is present
there.

Thank you.


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bug#58527: hyperlinks: emacs / clipboard interaction

[Sam Steingold]

Moreover, if I type `[[http://foo.bar][text]]` in an org buffer (which
is shown as a hyperlink `text`) and copy it to the clipboard (M-w), and
then paste it into, say, google doc or gmail, it is pasted as plain text
`[[...][...]]` rather than a hyperlink `text`.

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There's a marked difference between a ruler and a straightedge.

bug#58527: 29.0.50; emacs cannot insert links from clipboard (macos)

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:

> Select text with a link on a web page.
> Copy it to the clipboard.
> Paste it into, say, a google doc - the link is preserved.
> Paste it into Emacs (C-y) - only the text is inserted, not the link,
> even in org model which can handle links.

Try using `M-x yank-media' in a html-mode buffer -- it should yank the
HTML instead of the text.

I don't think Org implements a yank-media handler yet, though.

bug#58527: 29.0.50; emacs cannot insert links from clipboard (macos)

[Sam Steingold]

Cool!
Shouldn't it be integrated into the usual interprocess communication mechanism?
Also, does it support copying links from emacs?
Thank you!