Re: yank-media: allow users to limit image types that can be inserted

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>
>> Does it mean that you are not against an equivalent variable that can be
>> used from Elisp? I think that it might be good enough for Org mode
>> purposes and, if deemed necessary, may be later converted to user option.
>
> If a Lisp program wants to control which MIME types are preferred, it
> can do that already by changing the list of handlers, no?  I'm sure I
> said that at some point in the discussion.

Let me try to explain in my own words.

Consider the following 3 scenarios:

1. clipboard contains 2 MIME types: image/png, image/bmp
2. clipboard contains 1 MIME type: image/png
3. clipboard contains 1 MIME type: image/bmp

We want to handle all three scenarios in the following way:
1. Select image/png (prefer it over image/bmp)
2. Select image/png
3. Select image/bmp (there is no image/png that we would prefer otherwise)

In all three cases, we do not want to prompt user about mimetype choice.

How can we do it using the existing Elisp API?

> [It's hard to pick up a discussion which stopped a month ago.]

Aside: It is not the first time you mention this problem, and I am
wondering how can it be. The full discussion is recorded in the mailing
list archives and possibly available from your MUA from thread view (is
it not?).

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