From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: keymap in yank-excluded-properties Date: 23 Oct 2002 15:53:17 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5xhefdjm7m.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: <5xelcc3054.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <20020903.133657.57972895.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035378068 12562 80.91.224.249 (23 Oct 2002 13:01:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:01:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, 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 184L8B-0003Fu-00 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:01:03 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 184L9s-0006t6-00 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:02:49 +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 184L1X-0002hX-00; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:54:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 184L0a-0002HB-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:53:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 184L0X-0002FU-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:53:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 184L0X-0002FL-00; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:53:09 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (kfs2.local.filanet.dk [192.168.1.182]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 303897C012; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:53:07 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Tak Ota In-Reply-To: <20020903.133657.57972895.Takaaki.Ota@am.sony.com> Original-Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:8689 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8689 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 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 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 http://www.cua.dk