From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `M-x yank-media'
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2021 14:32:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfw8jdl1.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r1bs85jr.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 07 Nov 2021 15:21:44 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> What does this require from the clipboard to work? What are the
> assumptions?
It's basically this on GNU/Linux:
(gui-get-selection 'CLIPBOARD 'TARGETS)
=>
[TIMESTAMP TARGETS MULTIPLE SAVE_TARGETS text/html text/_moz_htmlinfo text/_moz_htmlcontext image/png image/jpeg image/bmp image/x-bmp image/x-MS-bmp image/x-icon image/x-ico image/x-win-bitmap image/vnd\.microsoft\.icon application/ico image/ico image/icon text/ico image/tiff]
This lists the available media types.
I've just had a quick peek at what happens in Macos, and it's very
different there.
(gui-get-selection 'CLIPBOARD 'TARGETS)
=> "http"
So gui-get-selection (or rather, ns-get-selection) has to grow support
for this? I know absolutely nothing about the internals of the
clipboard on Macos, so I've added Alan to the CCs -- perhaps he has some
insights here. It basically just calls:
static Lisp_Object
ns_get_foreign_selection (Lisp_Object symbol, Lisp_Object target)
{
id pb;
pb = ns_symbol_to_pb (symbol);
return pb != nil ? ns_string_from_pasteboard (pb) : Qnil;
}
Which seems geared towards text/plain only?
I haven't looked at Windows, but I'm guessing it has to grow a similar
set of capabilities.
> 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.
Yes, but it would just be too surprising in an Emacs context, in my
opinion. Changing how something as fundamental as `C-y' works here
would potentially be extremely annoying.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-07 13:32 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 [this message]
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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