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From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change behaviour of Copy/Cut/Paste from the menu bar.
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:30:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <785C5875-4BF4-11D8-902C-00039363E640@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1AjEYA-0001vh-HH@fencepost.gnu.org>

>     - ;; Sun expects the menu bar cut and paste commands to use the 
> clipboard.
>     - ;; This has ,? to match both on Sunos and on Solaris.
>     - (if (string-match "Sun Microsystems,? Inc\\."
>     - 		  (x-server-vendor))
>     -     (menu-bar-enable-clipboard))
>     -
>
> Are you sure this should be deleted?
> Someone should check what other programs do on Solaris.

Well, it is redundant now that menu-bar-enable-clipboard is always 
called
below.

>
>     + ;; Enable CLIPBOARD copy/paste through menu bar commands.
>     + (menu-bar-enable-clipboard)
>     +
>     + ;; Override Paste so it looks at CLIPBOARD first.
>     + (defun x-clipboard-yank ()
>     +   "Insert the clipboard contents, or the last stretch of killed 
> text."
>     +   (interactive)
>     +   (let ((clipboard-text (x-get-selection 'CLIPBOARD))
>     + 	(x-select-enable-clipboard t))
>     +     (if (and clipboard-text (> (length clipboard-text) 0))
>     + 	(kill-new clipboard-text))
>     +     (yank)))
>     +
>     + (define-key menu-bar-edit-menu [paste]
>     +   (cons "Paste" (cons "Paste text from clipboard" 
> 'x-clipboard-yank)))
>     +
>       ;;; arch-tag: f1501302-db8b-4d95-88e3-116697d89f78
>
> This is ok, but I think the help string should say
> "Paste text from clipboard or kill ring".

I'll change it.

	Jan D.

      reply	other threads:[~2004-01-21  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-20 15:11 Change behaviour of Copy/Cut/Paste from the menu bar Jan D.
2004-01-20 16:10 ` Jason Rumney
2004-01-20 22:32   ` Jan D.
2004-01-21  9:21 ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-21  9:30   ` Jan D. [this message]

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