Yanking as HTML

Yanking as HTML

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

I've tried googling for this for a few minutes, but I haven't found
anything promising (without relying on uncommon external programs).

I sometimes copy text from Firefox to Emacs, and when I'm pasting into
HTML documents, I would sometimes prefer to retain the HTML formatting
of what I'm copying.

Does Emacs have support for this somehow?  And if not, has anybody
thought about what this support should look like?  Obviously, the user
must be able to control "how much" richness should be yanked when
yanking (just the text; the HTML formatting; perhaps images too?).

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Re: Yanking as HTML

[Andreas Schwab]

On Okt 30 2016, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> I've tried googling for this for a few minutes, but I haven't found
> anything promising (without relying on uncommon external programs).

What are those programs doing?

Andreas.

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Re: Yanking as HTML

[Daniel Colascione]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I've tried googling for this for a few minutes, but I haven't found
> anything promising (without relying on uncommon external programs).
>
> I sometimes copy text from Firefox to Emacs, and when I'm pasting into
> HTML documents, I would sometimes prefer to retain the HTML formatting
> of what I'm copying.
>
> Does Emacs have support for this somehow?  And if not, has anybody
> thought about what this support should look like?  Obviously, the user
> must be able to control "how much" richness should be yanked when
> yanking (just the text; the HTML formatting; perhaps images too?).

A long time ago, I implemented support for rich-text copying _out_ of
Emacs in the HAVE_NTGUI case, but that code never landed in the
tree. The feature you're requesting is pretty straightforward to
implement, but it needs platform-specific C code. I agree about the user
options for controlling it --- perhaps on an operation-by-operation
basis via some kind of special prefix flag.

Re: Yanking as HTML

[YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu]

>>>>> On Sun, 30 Oct 2016 10:42:10 +0100, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:

> I've tried googling for this for a few minutes, but I haven't found
> anything promising (without relying on uncommon external programs).

> I sometimes copy text from Firefox to Emacs, and when I'm pasting
> into HTML documents, I would sometimes prefer to retain the HTML
> formatting of what I'm copying.

> Does Emacs have support for this somehow?  And if not, has anybody
> thought about what this support should look like?  Obviously, the
> user must be able to control "how much" richness should be yanked
> when yanking (just the text; the HTML formatting; perhaps images
> too?).

What would the result of (gui-get-selection 'CLIPBOARD 'TARGETS) look
like after copying text from the browser to the clipboard?

				     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
				mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp

Re: Yanking as HTML

[Igor Sosa Mayor]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I've tried googling for this for a few minutes, but I haven't found
> anything promising (without relying on uncommon external programs).
>
> I sometimes copy text from Firefox to Emacs, and when I'm pasting into
> HTML documents, I would sometimes prefer to retain the HTML formatting
> of what I'm copying.
>
> Does Emacs have support for this somehow?  And if not, has anybody
> thought about what this support should look like?  Obviously, the user
> must be able to control "how much" richness should be yanked when
> yanking (just the text; the HTML formatting; perhaps images too?).

maybe I don't understand the question, but: why you don't take the
source code of the site you're copying? In firefox: Ctrl-U if I remember
rightly...


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Re: Yanking as HTML

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Okt 30 2016, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>
>> I've tried googling for this for a few minutes, but I haven't found
>> anything promising (without relying on uncommon external programs).
>
> What are those programs doing?

Here's one on Linux:

[larsi@stories ~]$ xclip -o -t TARGETS
TIMESTAMP
TARGETS
MULTIPLE
text/html
text/_moz_htmlcontext
text/_moz_htmlinfo
UTF8_STRING
COMPOUND_TEXT
TEXT
STRING
text/x-moz-url-priv
[larsi@stories ~]$ xclip -o -t text/html
<div class="entry-meta">
                                                <span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">BY</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://www.tcj.com/author/josselin-moneyron/" title="View all posts by Josselin Moneyron">Josselin Moneyron</a></span> <span class="entry-date">Oct 27, 2016</span>    </div>

So I guess it's ... looking at the various different clipboard contents?
(I am wholly unfamiliar with how cut-and-paste really works in X, I just
use Emacs :-)).

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Re: Yanking as HTML

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp> writes:

> What would the result of (gui-get-selection 'CLIPBOARD 'TARGETS) look
> like after copying text from the browser to the clipboard?

(gui-get-selection 'CLIPBOARD 'TARGETS)
=> [TIMESTAMP TARGETS MULTIPLE SAVE_TARGETS UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING]

Hm...  so it lacks the "text/html" target that xclip -o -t TARGETS
lists?

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Re: Yanking as HTML

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> writes:

> A long time ago, I implemented support for rich-text copying _out_ of
> Emacs in the HAVE_NTGUI case, but that code never landed in the
> tree.

Oh, yeah, that's the other thing: It would be really nice if, when you
copy text from an eww buffer that it shows up as HTML if you paste it
into Firefox (or an Emacs HTML buffer, I guess).

> The feature you're requesting is pretty straightforward to
> implement, but it needs platform-specific C code.

Right.  Presumably on GNU/Linux first, and then the other platforms can
follow...

> I agree about the user
> options for controlling it --- perhaps on an operation-by-operation
> basis via some kind of special prefix flag.

And perhaps also (somehow) with different defaults pr mode.  If you're
yanking into an HTML buffer, `C-y' might default to yanking the
text/html clipboard?

And...  er...  what happens if you have an image in the clipboard?
Hm...  Well, it might make sense in a Message buffer?  It gets turned
into a image/jpeg (or whatever) part?  

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Re: Yanking as HTML

[Daniel Colascione]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> writes:
> And...  er...  what happens if you have an image in the clipboard?
> Hm...  Well, it might make sense in a Message buffer?  It gets turned
> into a image/jpeg (or whatever) part?  

The right answer clearly involves aalib.

Re: Yanking as HTML

[Yuri Khan]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> (gui-get-selection 'CLIPBOARD 'TARGETS)
> => [TIMESTAMP TARGETS MULTIPLE SAVE_TARGETS UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING]
>
> Hm...  so it lacks the "text/html" target that xclip -o -t TARGETS
> lists?

Your xclip invocation targets the PRIMARY selection (by default) while
the elisp snippet examines CLIPBOARD. This might be a reason for the
difference you observe.

In my test, text/html was present and I was able to see it as an Emacs
propertized string containing HTML tags.

Note that, in general, it is impossible to correctly copy-paste styled
HTML between documents:

* If you paste only the HTML, half the users will complain that “what
you get” in the target document differs from “what you see” of the
source document.

* If you paste both the HTML and CSS of the source, you introduce a
non-local effect (HTML is pasted at point while CSS needs to be pasted
at a different location).

* In a misguided attempt to sidestep the issue above, some programs
parse the HTML and CSS and apply CSS as direct formatting (HTML
style="" attribute). At this point, the other half of the users
(myself included) will complain that direct formatting is evil and any
tool that produces such where there was none is broken.

Re: Yanking as HTML

[Andreas Schwab]

On Okt 30 2016, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> On Okt 30 2016, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I've tried googling for this for a few minutes, but I haven't found
>>> anything promising (without relying on uncommon external programs).
>>
>> What are those programs doing?
>
> Here's one on Linux:
>
> [larsi@stories ~]$ xclip -o -t TARGETS
> TIMESTAMP
> TARGETS
> MULTIPLE
> text/html
> text/_moz_htmlcontext
> text/_moz_htmlinfo
> UTF8_STRING
> COMPOUND_TEXT
> TEXT
> STRING
> text/x-moz-url-priv
> [larsi@stories ~]$ xclip -o -t text/html

What do you get from (x-get-selection-internal 'CLIPBOARD 'text/html)?

Andreas.

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Re: Yanking as HTML

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> What do you get from (x-get-selection-internal 'CLIPBOARD 'text/html)?

nil

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Re: Yanking as HTML

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>
>> (gui-get-selection 'CLIPBOARD 'TARGETS)
>> => [TIMESTAMP TARGETS MULTIPLE SAVE_TARGETS UTF8_STRING
>> COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING]
>>
>> Hm...  so it lacks the "text/html" target that xclip -o -t TARGETS
>> lists?
>
> Your xclip invocation targets the PRIMARY selection (by default) while
> the elisp snippet examines CLIPBOARD. This might be a reason for the
> difference you observe.

(gui-get-selection 'PRIMARY 'TARGETS)
=> [TIMESTAMP TARGETS MULTIPLE text/html text/_moz_htmlcontext text/_moz_htmlinfo UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING text/x-moz-url-priv]

Oh, yeah, there it is.

(x-get-selection-internal 'PRIMARY 'text/html)
=>
#("\377\376<div class=\"entry-meta\">
						<span class=\"meta-prep meta-prep-author\">BY</span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"http://www.tcj.com/author/josselin-moneyron/\" title=\"View all posts by Josselin Moneyron\">Josselin Moneyron</a></span> <span class=\"entry-date\">Oct 27, 2016</span>					</div>" 0 620 (foreign-selection STRING))

Fun!  Apparently the support for doing this is in Emacs already, but it
needs some tweaking (the selection is in utf-16 or something and needs
decoding before usage?), so the main issue is really one of user
interface and not the low-level support (that much).

> Note that, in general, it is impossible to correctly copy-paste styled
> HTML between documents:
>
> * If you paste only the HTML, half the users will complain that “what
> you get” in the target document differs from “what you see” of the
> source document.

Well...  People know that Emacs isn't a wysiwyg editor, so I don't think
that is a complaint that will be common.  The complaint will be 50% "why
is it outputting all this HTML junk into my buffer?" and 50% "why isn't
it outputting any HTML into my buffer?"  :-)

So creating a user interface that for this that annoys the least number
of people is what's important.

And it could even be a total opt-in thing, like a global minor mode
like, er, `clever-yank-mode'.

What about drag-and-drop?  Is that basically the same as selections?  If
I were to drag an image from Firefox to this Message mode buffer, is it
feasible to make that do something useful?

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Re: Yanking as HTML

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

[Uhm, I sent a message with NUL characters that was apparently dropped
by the GNU mail servers, so I'm resending.  Apologies if this shows up
twice.] 

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>
>> (gui-get-selection 'CLIPBOARD 'TARGETS)
>> => [TIMESTAMP TARGETS MULTIPLE SAVE_TARGETS UTF8_STRING
>> COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING]
>>
>> Hm...  so it lacks the "text/html" target that xclip -o -t TARGETS
>> lists?
>
> Your xclip invocation targets the PRIMARY selection (by default) while
> the elisp snippet examines CLIPBOARD. This might be a reason for the
> difference you observe.

(gui-get-selection 'PRIMARY 'TARGETS)
=> [TIMESTAMP TARGETS MULTIPLE text/html text/_moz_htmlcontext text/_moz_htmlinfo UTF8_STRING COMPOUND_TEXT TEXT STRING text/x-moz-url-priv]

Oh, yeah, there it is.

(x-get-selection-internal 'PRIMARY 'text/html)
=>
#("<div class=\"entry-meta\">
						<span class=\"meta-prep meta-prep-author\">BY</span> <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"http://www.tcj.com/author/josselin-moneyron/\" title=\"View all posts by Josselin Moneyron\">Josselin Moneyron</a></span> <span class=\"entry-date\">Oct 27, 2016</span>					</div>" 0 620 (foreign-selection STRING))

Fun!  Apparently the support for doing this is in Emacs already, but it
needs some tweaking (the selection is in utf-16 or something and needs
decoding before usage?), so the main issue is really one of user
interface and not the low-level support (that much).

[And when I eval-ed this in Emacs, I got a NUL byte before each ASCII
character, which seems to indicate UTF-16.]

> Note that, in general, it is impossible to correctly copy-paste styled
> HTML between documents:
>
> * If you paste only the HTML, half the users will complain that “what
> you get” in the target document differs from “what you see” of the
> source document.

Well...  People know that Emacs isn't a wysiwyg editor, so I don't think
that is a complaint that will be common.  The complaint will be 50% "why
is it outputting all this HTML junk into my buffer?" and 50% "why isn't
it outputting any HTML into my buffer?"  :-)

So creating a user interface that for this that annoys the least number
of people is what's important.

And it could even be a total opt-in thing, like a global minor mode
like, er, `clever-yank-mode'.

What about drag-and-drop?  Is that basically the same as selections?  If
I were to drag an image from Firefox to this Message mode buffer, is it
feasible to make that do something useful?

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Re: Yanking as HTML

[Stephen Berman]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2016 12:08:19 +0100 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> What do you get from (x-get-selection-internal 'CLIPBOARD 'text/html)?
>
> nil

When I select a region of a browser page,
e.g. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/, with the mouse and type C-c,
then switch to *scratch* in Emacs, which already contains the above sexp
with point at the closing paren, and type C-j, I get this (displayed
here with line breaks for legibility instead of as a single line):

#("<div class=\"logo\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
 font-family: 'fira sans', sans; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal;
 font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px;
 vertical-align: baseline; overflow: hidden; text-align: center;
 z-index: 1; color: rgb(63, 59, 59); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
 text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
 word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
 -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245,
 237);\"><a href=\"http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html\"
 style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit;
 font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;
 font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;
 color: rgb(118, 49, 159); text-decoration: none;\"><img
 src=\"http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/images/emacs.png\"
 alt=\"Emacs\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
 font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit;
 font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;
 vertical-align: top; max-height: 100px;\"></a><span
 class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\302\240</span><h1 style=\"margin: 0px
 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 4em;
 font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600;
 line-height: 110px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline;\">GNU
 Emacs</h1></div><h2 style=\"margin: 20px auto 10px; padding: 0px;
 border: 0px; font-family: 'fira sans', sans; font-size: 2.6em;
 font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 300;
 line-height: 1.3em; vertical-align: baseline; z-index: 1; text-align:
 center; max-width: 760px; color: rgb(63, 59, 59); letter-spacing:
 normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
 white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
 -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
 background-color: rgb(245, 245, 237);\">An extensible, customizable,<a
 href=\"http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html\" style=\"margin:
 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size:
 inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight:
 inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color:
 rgb(118, 49, 159); text-decoration: none;\">free/libre</a><span
 class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\302\240</span>text editor \342\200\224
 and more.</h2>" 0 2360 (foreign-selection STRING))

Steve Berman

Re: Yanking as HTML

[mituharu]

>> * If you paste only the HTML, half the users will complain that “what
>> you get” in the target document differs from “what you see” of the
>> source document.
>
> Well...  People know that Emacs isn't a wysiwyg editor, so I don't think
> that is a complaint that will be common.  The complaint will be 50% "why
> is it outputting all this HTML junk into my buffer?" and 50% "why isn't
> it outputting any HTML into my buffer?"  :-)
>
> So creating a user interface that for this that annoys the least number
> of people is what's important.
>
> And it could even be a total opt-in thing, like a global minor mode
> like, er, `clever-yank-mode'.

The Mac port does something related for image data in the
clipboard: when the clipboard has both textual and image data,
yank (C-y) inserts the former and push both into the kill ring so
the latter can be inserted with yank-pop (M-y) afterwards.

				     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
				mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp

Re: Yanking as HTML

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp writes:

> The Mac port does something related for image data in the
> clipboard: when the clipboard has both textual and image data,
> yank (C-y) inserts the former and push both into the kill ring so
> the latter can be inserted with yank-pop (M-y) afterwards.

Hm, interesting.  I guess the same would make sense for HTML?

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Re: Yanking as HTML

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Hm...  perhaps commands like `w' in eww (which copies the URL under
point to the kill ring) could also put the link's entire HTML into the
text/html clipboard selection thingie?

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Re: Yanking as HTML

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  > Here's one on Linux:

It's running on the GNU/Linux system, which includes GNU
(which we are working on here).

To call the system "Linux" means attributing our work to someone else.
Would you please avoid from doing that?

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Re: Yanking as HTML

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sun, 30 Oct 2016 13:01:25 +0100 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote: 

LI> mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp writes:
>> The Mac port does something related for image data in the
>> clipboard: when the clipboard has both textual and image data,
>> yank (C-y) inserts the former and push both into the kill ring so
>> the latter can be inserted with yank-pop (M-y) afterwards.

LI> Hm, interesting.  I guess the same would make sense for HTML?

I like this UI! But please, if you implement it, add a transient message
so the user knows it is available.

Ted

Re: Yanking as HTML

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> I like this UI! But please, if you implement it, add a transient message
> so the user knows it is available.

Hm...  I could see how that might be annoying, too.  Or perhaps not?  In
most cases, there will be no text/html version available, I guess, so in
the vast majority of cases, there'll be no message.  So perhaps
messaging would be nice.

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Re: Yanking as HTML

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 14:21:38 +0100
> 
> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> 
> > I like this UI! But please, if you implement it, add a transient message
> > so the user knows it is available.
> 
> Hm...  I could see how that might be annoying, too.  Or perhaps not?  In
> most cases, there will be no text/html version available, I guess, so in
> the vast majority of cases, there'll be no message.  So perhaps
> messaging would be nice.

I would suggest to provide also a more explicit UI, like "Edit->Paste As"
or some such.

Re: Yanking as HTML

[Chad Brown]

> On 31Oct, 2016, at 08:48, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 14:21:38 +0100
>> 
>> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> 
>>> I like this UI! But please, if you implement it, add a transient message
>>> so the user knows it is available.
>> 
>> Hm...  I could see how that might be annoying, too.  Or perhaps not?  In
>> most cases, there will be no text/html version available, I guess, so in
>> the vast majority of cases, there'll be no message.  So perhaps
>> messaging would be nice.
> 
> I would suggest to provide also a more explicit UI, like "Edit->Paste As"
> or some such.

The various (sadly proprietary, often based on UI/code from Microsoft)
programs that I run into during work typically do this with something
like “Paste Special”, “Paste Formatted”, or “Paste and Match Style”.
In the cases where the default is to include styles, I sometimes
see “Paste Simple” as well.

~Chad

Re: Yanking as HTML

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I've tried googling for this for a few minutes, but I haven't found
> anything promising (without relying on uncommon external programs).
>
> I sometimes copy text from Firefox to Emacs, and when I'm pasting into
> HTML documents, I would sometimes prefer to retain the HTML formatting
> of what I'm copying.

Isn't https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-html/
what you are looking for ?

Re: Yanking as HTML

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:

> Isn't https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-html/
> what you are looking for ?

Nope.  Altering all other programs because of missing functionality in
Emacs isn't the way to go.  :-)

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