x-select-request-type

x-select-request-type

[Eli Zaretskii]

The doc string of x-select-request-type says, among other things:

    If the value is nil, try `COMPOUND_TEXT' and `UTF8_STRING', and
    use the more appropriate result.  If both fail, try `STRING', and
    then `TEXT'.

But the code only falls back on `STRING', I don't see it trying
`TEXT'.  Am I missing something, or do we need to fix the doc string?

Re: x-select-request-type

[Jan Djärv]

Eli Zaretskii skrev:
> The doc string of x-select-request-type says, among other things:
> 
>     If the value is nil, try `COMPOUND_TEXT' and `UTF8_STRING', and
>     use the more appropriate result.  If both fail, try `STRING', and
>     then `TEXT'.
> 
> But the code only falls back on `STRING', I don't see it trying
> `TEXT'.  Am I missing something, or do we need to fix the doc string?
> 
> 

You are right.  The doc string is wrong.

	Jan D.

Re: x-select-request-type

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <ufxz5cg24.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> The doc string of x-select-request-type says, among other things:
>     If the value is nil, try `COMPOUND_TEXT' and `UTF8_STRING', and
>     use the more appropriate result.  If both fail, try `STRING', and
>     then `TEXT'.

> But the code only falls back on `STRING', I don't see it trying
> `TEXT'.  Am I missing something, or do we need to fix the doc string?

For emacs-unicode-2, I'm just now improving selection
handling, and the docstring of x-select-request-type will
become as this:

------------------------------------------------------------
*Data type request for X selection.
The value is one of the following data types, a list of them, or nil:
  `COMPOUND_TEXT', `UTF8_STRING', `STRING', `TEXT'

If the value is one of the above symbols, try only the specified
type.

If the value is a list of them, try each of them in the specified
order until succeed.

The value nil is the same as the list:
  (UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT STRING)
------------------------------------------------------------

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Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp

Re: x-select-request-type

[Jan Djärv]

Kenichi Handa skrev:
> In article <ufxz5cg24.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>> The doc string of x-select-request-type says, among other things:
>>     If the value is nil, try `COMPOUND_TEXT' and `UTF8_STRING', and
>>     use the more appropriate result.  If both fail, try `STRING', and
>>     then `TEXT'.
> 
>> But the code only falls back on `STRING', I don't see it trying
>> `TEXT'.  Am I missing something, or do we need to fix the doc string?
> 
> For emacs-unicode-2, I'm just now improving selection
> handling, and the docstring of x-select-request-type will
> become as this:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> *Data type request for X selection.
> The value is one of the following data types, a list of them, or nil:
>   `COMPOUND_TEXT', `UTF8_STRING', `STRING', `TEXT'
> 

Should we not try UTF8_STRING first?

	Jan D.

Re: x-select-request-type

[Kenichi Handa]

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In article <474031B6.1040704@swipnet.se>, Jan Dj^[$(D+#^[(Brv <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> writes:

> > *Data type request for X selection.
> > The value is one of the following data types, a list of them, or nil:
> >   `COMPOUND_TEXT', `UTF8_STRING', `STRING', `TEXT'
> > 

> Should we not try UTF8_STRING first?

Ah, yes.  The latest emacs-unicode-2 code does that, and
documented so.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp