Re: yank-media: allow users to limit image types that can be inserted

[Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>]

[திங்கள் செப்டம்பர் 23, 2024] Robert Pluim wrote:


>     Eli> The issue at hand here, AFAIU, is not the UI, but how Lisp programs
>     Eli> (and Org in particular) can control this.  If the issue is the user
>     Eli> interface, then I honestly don't understand what issue is being
>     Eli> brought up, because in that case we already have the correct and
>     Eli> comprehensive solution, similar to what other advanced apps do in
>     Eli> these cases.
>
> You have to register the yank-media-handler before the yank-media
> call, so org canʼt control this: it has to register for "image/.*"
> because it canʼt know what formats will be presented to it. I guess it
> could have a user option to filter the results from inside its
> yank-media-handler, but then *every* package that wants to support
> image yanking will have to implement something similar: we should just
> implement such handling in the yank-media code.

AFAIR the yank-media code, there's no way for the handlers to reject a
specific format.  yank-media, the command, asks the user the type she
wants, _then_ calls the handler specific to that type.  The handler
cannot influence anything during this interaction.