Re: keymap in yank-excluded-properties

[Tak Ota <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com>]

Sun, 01 Sep 2002 09:14:35 -0400: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

> Could people please turn their attention to these questions that
> I asked about a week ago?
> 
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> What's correct to do for yanking a table?  Yanking the whole table
> ought to preserve its properties so that the table still functions as
> one.  Yanking a part of the table which can act as a complete table in
> itself should also do that.  However, yanking some of the text within
> the table, which is less than a whole table entry, should forget that
> it came from a table and treat it like any ordinary text.
> 
> Does that make sense to you?  If so, can you look for a design to
> achieve those results?

Tue, 03 Sep 2002 09:26:46 -0400: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

> How about if the two of you together try implementing the yank-function feature
> and a suitable function to handle yanking of tables?  That way, we will see
> if the feature really can do the job at hand.

I'm sorry I forgot to reply to your suggested yanking behavior for
table.  What you suggested above made perfect sense.  I'll start
working on how to implement it as `yank-function'.  I expect it is not
as easy to implement as conceptually described above though.

-Tak