From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [EPeterson@mcdonaldbradley.com: Kill ring leak in winemacs macros] Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:19:09 +0100 Message-ID: <430211FD.5000507@gnu.org> References: <34161.128.165.123.83.1123097221.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <42F1208D.1070307@student.lu.se> <34340.128.165.123.83.1123102769.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <40280.128.165.123.83.1124204823.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <43020FDF.6060007@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124209379 27212 80.91.229.2 (16 Aug 2005 16:22:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:22:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kevin Rodgers , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 16 18:22:50 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E54CL-0002zt-0S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:21:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E54Fl-0003iS-AG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:25:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E54CV-0002Oi-Pi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:22:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E54CJ-0002Im-1s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:21:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E54CI-0002HW-Cz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:21:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.207.198.106] (helo=exchange.integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E54Na-0003ux-Oj; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:33:35 -0400 Original-Received: from ASSP-nospam (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by exchange.integrasp.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id 37Q0TR04; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 17:14:14 +0100 Original-Received: from 10.10.5.77 ([10.10.5.77] helo=[10.10.5.77]) by ASSP-nospam ; 16 Aug 05 16:14:13 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Windows/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: <43020FDF.6060007@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:42133 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:42133 Jason Rumney wrote: > Stuart D. Herring wrote: > >> I realize I never did implement this -- can I get some opinions on which >> of these approaches to follow? So far my reasoning is that the >> execute-kbd-macro path is simpler and cleaner, but the kill-functions >> path >> is more transparent (as well as having the trivial advantage that it >> would >> remain possible to permanently affect the interprogram-*-functions >> variables from a keyboard macro). >> >> > I'm not convinced this change is a good one. What if your macro > involves a call-process call to an external program that interacts > with Emacs via the keyboard? clipboard, of course, not keyboard.