protect paste operations from key rebindings

protect paste operations from key rebindings

[Dan Davison]

As an experiment, I've bound ( and [ and " to functions which
automatically insert the closing character, and leave point
inbetween. I think I like this behaviour, at least while
programming. I'm running ubuntu with gnome. Unfortunately, if I'm
running emacs in a gnome-terminal (no X), and I paste the X clipboard
contents into a buffer using both mouse buttons, or shift-insert, then
my keybindings have their effect, and I get all sorts of undesired
doubled parentheses and stuff. This doesn't happen when I yank text
killed by emacs. In emacs -nw the X clipboard contents do not enter
the kill-ring (no way round that, right?). However in emacs with X
enabled, my keybindings have no effect on pasted text from the X
clipboard, whether by C-y or both-mouse-buttons / shift-insert.

Is there anyway I can obtain literal pasting from the X clipboard
under emacs -nw? Or any way I can redefine my functions such that they
don't affect text pasted in this way? Currently I'm using
insert-parentheses for "(", and simple-minded stuff like

(defun dan-insert-square-brackets ()
  (interactive)
  (insert "[]")
  (backward-char))

for "[".

Thanks a lot,

Dan

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www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~davison

Re: protect paste operations from key rebindings

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:43:44 +0100
> From: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
> 
> Is there anyway I can obtain literal pasting from the X clipboard
> under emacs -nw?

Unless Emacs can know somehow that the text comes from a clipboard, I
don't think you can.  But since it is you who pastes the text, you can
disable your "smart insertion" (e.g., with some keybinding) and then
reenable it again after pasting the clipboard text.