From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian Adkins Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can't paste from files with .arc extension Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 16:16:01 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <49e22913-cbe4-4aad-8882-39dd014fbf87@u69g2000hse.googlegroups.com> References: <397b3f92-b993-4ea0-9f01-582b96e269dd@34g2000hsz.googlegroups.com> <72d00b40-1966-4828-9821-f833dea47b40@h11g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205023251 29997 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2008 00:40:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 00:40:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 09 01:41:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JY9b9-0008TT-7n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:41:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JY9ab-0000yX-Bq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:40:33 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!u69g2000hse.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.209.204.112 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1205021761 25282 127.0.0.1 (9 Mar 2008 00:16:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 00:16:01 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u69g2000hse.googlegroups.com; posting-host=68.209.204.112; posting-account=Uust-woAAAAfaTc8iUxK0_NIe578kqTZ User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080207 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.12, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156799 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52171 Archived-At: On Mar 8, 3:31 pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Brian Adkins > > Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 07:27:32 -0800 (PST) > > > I thought that inclusion of the .arc extension in the auto-coding- > > alist meant that emacs considered the file to be binary and thus would > > not paste contents into another application. Are you saying that the > > expected behavior is for emacs to paste anyway? > > Yes, I don't see any reason why printable characters from a binary > file could not be pasted into another application. Emacs has a way of > dealing with characters that cannot be safely put into the X selection > (it replaces them with `?'s or some such), if that's what you thought > could prevent copy-paste. > > So I encourage you to report this as a bug. Thanks. I went ahead and filed the bug report as you suggested in case the desired behavior is to paste from no-conversion files; however, in my case, I think the proper thing to do is to remove .arc from the list since in my case a .arc file is simply a file containing a dialect of Lisp.