Re: keymap in yank-excluded-properties

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

23 Oct 2002 15:53:17 +0200: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) wrote:

> Some time ago, I wrote:
> 
>     I still think that my proposal for a yank-function text property (set
>     on the original table text, and used by yank and yank-rectangle to do
>     the yank) would do be a simple, yet powerful approach, as it would use
>     automatically copy that property to the kill-ring, so there is nothing
>     we need to add to basic functionality to achieve this.
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> Tak Ota <Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> responded:
> 
> > 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,
> 
> Have you made any progress on this?
> 
> I didn't want to make any changes to emacs basics to support the
> yank-function property until I had heard from you whether it was
> possible to handle table(-fragment) yanking as suggested.
> 
> -- 
> Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk

Kim,

I know it's been on my TODO list for sometime together with table
documentation.  I am really tied down to my bread-n-butter work.  I'll
get back to you when I'm ready.  Sorry.

-Tak