From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adrian Robert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "pasteboard doesn't contain valid data" on OSX Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 07:35:57 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <86y6ci5jbn.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <4C5F02CD.6050500@swipnet.se> <4C5F1C79.5070104@harpegolden.net> <4C5F36A7.5040005@harpegolden.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281339385 30715 80.91.229.12 (9 Aug 2010 07:36:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 07:36:25 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 09 09:36:23 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiMuD-0002Zr-5p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:36:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44310 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiMuC-0006yc-Ad for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:36:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52856 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiMu5-0006yV-5l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:36:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiMu3-00085g-JS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:36:12 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:42283) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiMu3-00085P-CX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiMtz-0002VU-UM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:36:07 +0200 Original-Received: from dsl-hkibrasgw2-ff6ec300-110.dhcp.inet.fi ([88.195.110.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:36:07 +0200 Original-Received: from Adrian.B.Robert by dsl-hkibrasgw2-ff6ec300-110.dhcp.inet.fi with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:36:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 88.195.110.110 (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en; rv:1.9.0.18) Gecko/2010021619 Camino/2.0.2 (like Firefox/3.0.18)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:128454 Archived-At: David De La Harpe Golden harpegolden.net> writes: > > Plus, the ns port is doing something strange elsewhere (ns-win.el) (that > > can be summed up as "cut buffers? ...wtf?"). > > > > Seems stuff that's named "cut buffer" in the ns-specific parts has > basically nothing to do with x11 cut buffers. I don't know if there was > a misunderstanding, or an active decision to reuse the name, or what (I > suppose I could paw through the logs), but it's a terrible name given > the opportunity for confusion with an obsolete x11 feature (especially > remembering that ns emacs /runs on/ x11 in some incarnations). Please feel free to rename as seems appropriate. Likely the naming is left over from an older incarnation of emacs internals that got modified in other ports but not here, or from some internal evolution of the NS code itself that kept the old names but changed the implementations. -Adrian