Re: [BUG] [PATCH] Add yank-media and DND handler [9.6.7 (9.6.7-g6eb773 @ /home/viz/lib/emacs/straight/build/org/)]

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Ideally, we should ask Emacs devs to provide OS-independent interface
>> for uri-list handling. I am not a big fan of adding special OS handling
>> to Org mode, unless absolutely necessary.
>
> Inasmuch as I had previously interposed myself into this conversation,
> it should have been clear that its subject is of interest to me.  So
> herein lies the question: why was I removed from its carbon copy list,
> from nothing less than a follow-up to my reply itself?  It is common
> courtesy for some advance notice to be given to a participant who is
> about to be subject to such treatment; and was I not, I would have be
> made aware of your plight earlier -- but I digress.

Because nobody added you manually to the CC in this branch of the
discussion. You would only be automatically in the CC in the replies to
your message (87bkdccihf.fsf@yahoo.com), but not the earlier branches.

> How about enabling programs to receive drops of multiple files instead?
> Since not all window systems supply drops of multiple files in the form
> of text/uri-lists, I account that a more robust and versatile interface.

Do you mean something like a standardized entry in `dnd-protocol-alist'
that is independent on OS? Instead of (REGEXP . FUNCTION),
(SYMBOL . FUNCTION) with SYMBOL = 'file-list or so.

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