Re: x-select-request-type

[Kenichi Handa <handa@ni.aist.go.jp>]

In article <ufxz5cg24.fsf@gnu.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> The doc string of x-select-request-type says, among other things:
>     If the value is nil, try `COMPOUND_TEXT' and `UTF8_STRING', and
>     use the more appropriate result.  If both fail, try `STRING', and
>     then `TEXT'.

> But the code only falls back on `STRING', I don't see it trying
> `TEXT'.  Am I missing something, or do we need to fix the doc string?

For emacs-unicode-2, I'm just now improving selection
handling, and the docstring of x-select-request-type will
become as this:

------------------------------------------------------------
*Data type request for X selection.
The value is one of the following data types, a list of them, or nil:
  `COMPOUND_TEXT', `UTF8_STRING', `STRING', `TEXT'

If the value is one of the above symbols, try only the specified
type.

If the value is a list of them, try each of them in the specified
order until succeed.

The value nil is the same as the list:
  (UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT STRING)
------------------------------------------------------------

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Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp