From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 47032@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47032: 26.3; doc of `interprogram-paste-function'
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:55:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83blbrp3rq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SA2PR10MB4474A27C739134C43C8E86D7F3929@SA2PR10MB4474.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 9 Mar 2021 23:46:37 +0000)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 23:46:37 +0000
>
> The doc string and (elisp) `Low-Level Kill Ring' say that the function
> value of this var can return a "list of strings", to support window
> systems that support multiple selections.
Not "can", "may".
> Is this a Lisp list of file-name strings?
Of course. What other kind of list could be alluded to in the ELisp
manual?
> What kind of multiselection in MS Windows would result in such a
> list being obtained and returned by the function value of the var?
MS Windows doesn't support selections at all, it only supports the
clipboard.
> And if that really was what was meant by a "list of strings" then maybe
> that doc could be clarified, because the way it is now I expected a Lisp
> list of strings that are (absolute) file names.
It's hard to clarify what the manual says because this is not
implemented yet in Emacs, see xselect.c (search for QMULTIPLE).
In a nutshell, this is something we hope will be implemented some day,
and if so, probably only for X selections.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-09 23:46 bug#47032: 26.3; doc of `interprogram-paste-function' Drew Adams
2021-03-10 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-06-20 8:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-20 10:03 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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