From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Improving X selection? Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:41:25 +0200 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <87d4jppr6i.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> References: <20071012105022.6c8b174a@tweety> <874pgtfw1y.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> <4713067D.2060504@swipnet.se> <87fy0cdvr6.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> <471467FF.5070005@swipnet.se> <87vdxy2kwo.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> <87tzdanllg.fsf@jurta.org> <48B6E420.9090204@harpegolden.net> <48B6EC17.3000205@harpegolden.net> <87d4jss6xv.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> <48B8C7BD.2010207@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220169215 23372 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2008 07:53:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:53:35 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 31 09:54:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KZhlU-0000Ch-B7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:54:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33103 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZhkV-0003Ss-Mv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:53:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZhkR-0003Sd-SX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:53:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZhkQ-0003SO-Eb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:53:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41333 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZhkQ-0003SJ-85 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:53:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:24494) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KZhkP-0005sP-IO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:53:21 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KZhkO-0005hq-5X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:53:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KZhkH-00072j-6b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:53:13 +0000 Original-Received: from e178024168.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.24.168]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:53:13 +0000 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178024168.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:53:13 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178024168.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SjRk3RZ303nd1y/ROMeI81xRIb0= X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:103301 Archived-At: On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:08:29 +0100 David De La Harpe Golden wrote: > David Hansen wrote: > >> >> Would it be possible / desirable that emacs kill-ring somehow cooperates >> with these tools? >> > > Well, they are somewhat like the kill-ring.... There's no existing > standard api* for generally accesing them though AFAIK, and it's not > immediately clear to me how you would mesh them if you wanted to. Well, the idea of having some global emacs kill ring is just so nice but probably naive. > * FWIW, one can easily extract clipboard history items from KDE 3.x > klipper with it's dcop API e.g. at the command-line, > dcop klipper klipper getClipboardHistoryMenu > - but other clipboard manager daemons presumably don't support that. Maybe worth a look. I'll do some reading myself. Thanks, David