Re: w32-get-clipboard-data

[Stephen Coda <stephencoda@googlemail.com>]

On Tuesday, 1 September 2015 15:41:04 UTC+1, Eli Zaretskii  wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 01:21:45 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Stephen Coda <stephencoda@googlemail.com>
> > 
> > It's only ever happened to me on this particular machine. Unfortunately I don't control how it is set up.
> > 
> > I ran addpm.exe to be sure. No change. :/
> > 
> > So currently I cut and paste stuff into notepad++ into a file I share with emacs. Then I can grab stuff from there while I'm in emacs to kill/yank. It works, but it's no way to live.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> After you copy into the clipboard from another application, can you
> look with some clipboard viewing program and tell what formats are in
> the clipboard?  Emacs understands only a small fraction of the
> possible formats, so perhaps that system was configured to not use
> those formats (e.g., for security reasons).

Hi Eli,

I couldn't see anything weird in there format wise.
I'm suspecting a security issue.

Kind regards,
Steve