Re: Emacs 24.5.1 has wrong charset on yanked text with Windows (was: Operating on yanked region)

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 05:53:51PM +0200, Karl Voit wrote:
> * <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

[...]

> I once set this to 'utf-8 in my init.el. The Emacs help further
> suggests setting it to 'utf-16le-dos instead when running on
> Windows. With switching to this setting, the clipboard gets yanked
> properly! :-)

That's interesting, since Eli says it shouldn't be necessary on
Windows (and he sure knows a hell of a lot more about Emacs than
I do, and much more so specifically about Emacs on windows).

That'd mean that your Emacs is confused somehow, but why?

[...]

> Can you still show me how I yank and operate (string-replace) only
> on the yanked text?

I don't know exactly what you want to achieve (manual operation, or
ultimately some automatism?), but you might start here:

 - after a (normal) yank, the last mark is at the start of the
   yanked text and point at its end (but mark is not active).
   So if you activate it, e.g. by

     M-x eval-expression RET (activate-mark) RET

   you get the just yanked stuff "selected". You'll have to
   wrap some of that into commands to make it practical, though.
   Season to taste.

 - there isn't, AFAIK, a hook hanging off the yank event itself
   (a pity, IMHO), but if you somehow manage to attach the text
   property named 'yank-handler (having as value a function +
   arg provided by you), then this function gets the chance to
   do its thing just after yanking.

   Search for "yank-handler" in the Emacs Lisp manual. I'm a
   bit pressed now, but if you nudge me I'd be willing to whip
   up an example.

regards
- -- t
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