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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `M-x yank-media'
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2021 15:21:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r1bs85jr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878ry0kt2h.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun,  07 Nov 2021 14:12:54 +0100)

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2021 14:12:54 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > This new command doesn't seem to work for me on MS-Windows: I get this
> > message:
> >
> >   user-error: No handler in the current buffer for anything on the clipboard
> >
> > The documentation doesn't seem to hint that something non-trivial is
> > needed for this to work.
> 
> I haven't tried this on Windows at all -- I have no idea what the
> clipboard stuff looks like over there.  (Or on Macos, but I had planned
> on exploring that.)

What does this require from the clipboard to work?  What are the
assumptions?

> > Also, should this be bound to a key?  Perhaps even C-y?
> 
> There are so few modes that support media yanking that it's premature to
> put it on any key, I think.  And certainly not on `C-y' -- that would
> break all sorts of things, I think.  (People marking text in a web
> browser and hitting `C-y' in a html-mode buffer still expect to get just
> the plain text, while `yank-media' will give them more options, like
> text/html.)

AFAIK, that's what "other applications" do: they paste the content
from the clipboard regardless of the type.  Fine-tuned behavior, where
the user can select exactly what he/she wants to past and how, is then
available from a context menu.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-07 13:21 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 [this message]
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
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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