From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: alan@idiocy.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `M-x yank-media'
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2021 15:57:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k0hk83wo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875yt4jctz.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 07 Nov 2021 14:48:56 +0100)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, alan@idiocy.org
> Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2021 14:48:56 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > But those are just the types. How do we fetch the stuff afterwards?
>
> With
>
> (gui-get-selection 'CLIPBOARD 'image/png)
>
> and then some slight massaging; see yank-media--get-selection.
I cannot figure out from that code what kind of "data" is expected
from the above call. For example, if the data in the clipboard is an
image?
> > (gui-get-selection 'CLIPBOARD 'TARGETS)
> > =>
> > [DataObject text/html HTML\ Format text/_moz_htmlinfo text/_moz_htmlcontext application/x-moz-file-promise-url application/x-moz-file-promise-dest-filename FILE_NAMES Preferred\ DropEffect application/x-moz-nativeimage DIB Ole\ Private\ Data BITMAP nil]
> >
> > (This is after "Copy Image" in Firefox.) But I suspect that's not all
> > of the story.
>
> So that's why `yank-media' saying it can't find any matches, because
> it's looking for "image/.*" (in Message buffers).
Then that's non-portable, because this stuff is not standardized
enough, AFAIK. We need more layers to hide platforms-specifics, I
think.
> It sounds like application/x-moz-file-promise-dest-filename (or one of
> the other ones) might hold the file name where the image is? Does
>
> (gui-get-selection 'CLIPBOARD 'application/x-moz-file-promise-dest-filename)
>
> return anything?
I don't expect it to, because I don't see any implementation for
anything but text.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-07 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-06 21:05 `M-x yank-media' Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-06 23:09 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-11-07 3:05 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-11-07 1:23 ` T.V Raman
2021-11-07 10:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-07 13:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-07 13:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-07 13:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-07 13:38 ` Po Lu
2021-11-07 13:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-08 0:56 ` Po Lu
2021-11-08 1:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-08 2:12 ` Po Lu
2021-11-07 13:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-07 13:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-07 13:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-11-07 14:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-07 14:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-07 14:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-07 14:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-07 14:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-23 23:42 ` Alan Third
2021-11-24 7:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-24 10:59 ` Alan Third
2021-11-24 16:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-25 0:53 ` Po Lu
2021-11-25 13:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-08 3:07 ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-08 4:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-08 5:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-08 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-09 3:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-08 16:56 ` Uwe Brauer
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