From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Variable-width font indentation: pasting outside Emacs Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:56:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520371537 31942 195.159.176.226 (6 Mar 2018 21:25:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 21:25:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 06 22:25:33 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1etK5F-0005wQ-EP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 22:25:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58321 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etK7I-0001BY-55 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 16:27:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52948) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJdx-0007r3-0d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:57:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJdv-00027I-W9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:57:05 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55486) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJdg-0001y9-BN; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:56:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1etJdf-00039f-Nj; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:56:47 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Tue, 6 Mar 2018 10:21:47 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223381 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > But all of that is only about how the text appears inside Emacs. > What about copying text and pasting it into other applications? This is am important area for work. The first question is to figure out what behavior is right. Would you like to work on that? It would be useful to look at what happens when copying text in and out of LibreOffice, and between two windows of LibreOffice. That could give an idea of what we would want Emacs to do, at least in modes for documents. We might want to do different things in modes for software. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.