From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: stephencoda@googlemail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: w32-get-clipboard-data Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 03:44:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <0f6a0212-3e01-4a6d-8b6d-6361621f4dc1@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440510246 4044 80.91.229.3 (25 Aug 2015 13:44:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:44:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 25 15:44:06 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUEWC-0008W3-U1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 15:44:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59972 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUEWC-0002tD-2G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:44:04 -0400 X-Received: by 10.140.196.2 with SMTP id r2mr27618845qha.3.1440499444899; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 03:44:04 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.111.43 with SMTP id if11mr27221igb.1.1440499444818; Tue, 25 Aug 2015 03:44:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!s36no1232341qgs.1!news-out.google.com!f6ni4792igi.0!nntp.google.com!se8no10029071igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=195.188.251.108; posting-account=m04FzgoAAACE321zIBttJ0LOy_kNjzcN Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.188.251.108 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 10:44:04 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:214548 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:43:53 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106832 Archived-At: For me, w32-get-clipboard-data always returns null. I was trying to understand why I couldn't use copy and paste in emacs so I followed the elisp to x-get-selection-value which calls w32-get-clipboard-data. But I hit C source code bedrock here: """ w32-get-clipboard-data is a built-in function in `C source code'. (w32-get-clipboard-data &optional IGNORED) This gets the clipboard data in text format. [back] """ Does anyone have any insights as to why this function doesn't appear to be working for me? Kind regards, Steve