From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tak Ota Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: keymap in yank-excluded-properties Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 13:36:57 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Sony Electronics Inc. Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020903.133657.57972895.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> References: <5xelcc3054.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031085453 3756 127.0.0.1 (3 Sep 2002 20:37:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:37:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mKQR-0000xz-00 for ; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 22:37:27 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17mKzI-0000jY-00 for ; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 23:13:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17mKRv-0007Iy-00; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 16:38:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17mKQ9-00079X-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 16:37:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17mKQ7-000791-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 16:37:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail6.fw-sj.sony.com ([160.33.82.73]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17mKQ3-00077n-00; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 16:37:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mail1.bc.in.sel.sony.com (mail1.bc.in.sel.sony.com [43.144.65.11]) by mail6.fw-sj.sony.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA08029; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:37:01 GMT Original-Received: by mail1.bc.in.sel.sony.com id UAA18599; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:36:59 GMT Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Telephone: +1-858-942-3239 X-Fax------: +1-858-942-9142 X-SnailMail: 16450 West Bernardo Drive MZ7205, San Diego, CA 92127-1804 X-Mailer: Mew-3.0.65 on Emacs-21.3.50.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195) of 2002-09-03 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:7401 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7401 Sun, 01 Sep 2002 09:14:35 -0400: Richard Stallman wrote: > Could people please turn their attention to these questions that > I asked about a week ago? > > ====================================================================== > 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 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