From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 47032@debbugs.gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: bug#47032: 26.3; doc of `interprogram-paste-function'
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 18:03:42 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qvjps75.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83blbrp3rq.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 10 Mar 2021 14:55:05 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 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.
The MULTIPLE target is unrelated to the question at hand, as it only
provides a more efficient way for clients to request multiple targets of
the same selection at once. Emacs also implements the MULTIPLE target,
but only for requests from other clients.
The ICCCM doesn't define a specific "list" format, but it does define
separators for several data types. If you want to respond to a
selection request with a list of file names, then add a selection
converter to `selection-converter-alist' that returns a cons of
`C_STRING' and the encoded file names in a single unibyte string,
separated by NULL bytes.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-20 10:03 UTC|newest]
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
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 [this message]
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