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From: Adrian Robert <Adrian.B.Robert@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: &quot;pasteboard doesn't contain valid data&quot; on OSX
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 07:35:57 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20100809T093107-341@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4C5F36A7.5040005@harpegolden.net

David De La Harpe Golden <david <at> harpegolden.net> writes:

> > Plus, the ns port is doing something strange elsewhere (ns-win.el) (that
> > can be summed up as "cut buffers? ...wtf?").
> >
> 
> Seems stuff that's named "cut buffer" in the ns-specific parts has 
> basically nothing to do with x11 cut buffers.  I don't know if there was 
> a misunderstanding, or an active decision to reuse the name, or what (I 
> suppose I could paw through the logs), but it's a terrible name given 
> the opportunity for confusion with an obsolete x11 feature (especially 
> remembering that ns emacs /runs on/ x11 in some incarnations).


Please feel free to rename as seems appropriate.  Likely the naming is left over
from an older incarnation of emacs internals that got modified in other ports
but not here, or from some internal evolution of the NS code itself that kept
the old names but changed the implementations.

-Adrian





  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-09  7:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-07 19:11 "pasteboard doesn't contain valid data" on OSX Randal L. Schwartz
2010-08-08 19:17 ` Jan Djärv
2010-08-08 21:07   ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-08 22:58     ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-09  7:35       ` Adrian Robert [this message]
2010-08-21 19:32       ` Randal L. Schwartz
2010-08-09  6:25     ` Jan Djärv
2010-08-09 20:46       ` David De La Harpe Golden
2010-08-11 14:23       ` Randal L. Schwartz
2010-08-11 14:51         ` Jan Djärv
2010-08-11 14:53           ` Randal L. Schwartz
2010-08-11 15:10             ` Jan Djärv
2010-08-11 18:37               ` Chad Brown
2010-08-11 18:51                 ` Leo

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