From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 27442@debbugs.gnu.org, Hi-Angel@yandex.ru
Subject: bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2021 14:21:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831r8bhen3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tul8v7v9.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 05 Jul 2021 22:11:22 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Hi-Angel@yandex.ru, 27442@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 22:11:22 +0200
>
> (kill-new "foo")
> (gui-selection-value)
> => nil
>
> Could we use a different way to identify this situation that's less
> fragile?
AFAIK, there's no reasonable way of doing a better check.
> Hm... I don't really see any with our current low-level
> functions. I think x-get-selection-internal could have returned more
> metadata -- the timestamp, for instance, which would have allowed us to
> see whether we ourselves really pushed the data to the clipboard.
Where would that time stamp come from?
> My analysis here may be wrong, but if this is the reason the code in
> that function is the way it is, I think the right fix here is the
> trivial patch I proposed, along with more comments in
> `gui-selection-value' that explains what the point of the
> duplicate-ignoring code is.
I admit I don't really understand what the patch does and how. can
you elaborate on that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-06 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-21 14:29 bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional Constantine Kharlamov
2017-06-21 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-06-21 19:55 ` Constantine Kharlamov
2021-07-05 14:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-05 14:46 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-07-05 15:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-05 15:59 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-07-05 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-05 20:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-05 20:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-06 11:21 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-07-06 14:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-06 15:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-06 16:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-06 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-06 17:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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