From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: w32-get-clipboard-data Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:39:25 +0300 Message-ID: <83k2sacig2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <0f6a0212-3e01-4a6d-8b6d-6361621f4dc1@googlegroups.com> <0de2f21d-dd37-4ab1-bf0b-e0f04f18493e@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1441118492 7683 80.91.229.3 (1 Sep 2015 14:41:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 14:41:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 01 16:41:19 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWmkP-0008DS-3B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 16:41:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54732 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWmkO-0004Wm-ES for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 10:41:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52469) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWmk8-0004Ui-U2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 10:41:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWmk5-0007GN-3w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 10:41:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:36042) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZWmk4-0007Eg-Oh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 10:40:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NU0009005OZJW00@mtaout28.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:39:04 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NU0008V9614M420@mtaout28.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:39:04 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <0de2f21d-dd37-4ab1-bf0b-e0f04f18493e@googlegroups.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106955 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 01:21:45 -0700 (PDT) > From: Stephen Coda > > It's only ever happened to me on this particular machine. Unfortunately I don't control how it is set up. > > I ran addpm.exe to be sure. No change. :/ > > So currently I cut and paste stuff into notepad++ into a file I share with emacs. Then I can grab stuff from there while I'm in emacs to kill/yank. It works, but it's no way to live. Indeed. After you copy into the clipboard from another application, can you look with some clipboard viewing program and tell what formats are in the clipboard? Emacs understands only a small fraction of the possible formats, so perhaps that system was configured to not use those formats (e.g., for security reasons).