From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
Cc: YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu <mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Yanking as HTML
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 12:18:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3eg2yqe4l.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8XQqr9d=BT_gW80ZB=jdtx9D=UYofKLA4mVWzQb_Zy14w@mail.gmail.com> (Yuri Khan's message of "Sun, 30 Oct 2016 16:59:15 +0600")
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?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-30 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-30 9:42 Yanking as HTML Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-10-30 9:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-10-30 10:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-10-30 11:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-10-30 11:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-10-30 11:25 ` Stephen Berman
2016-10-30 17:17 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-30 10:05 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-10-30 10:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-10-30 10:52 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-10-30 10:15 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2016-10-30 10:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-10-30 10:59 ` Yuri Khan
2016-10-30 11:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-10-30 11:34 ` mituharu
2016-10-30 12:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-10-30 15:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-10-31 12:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
2016-10-31 13:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-10-31 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-03 23:55 ` Chad Brown
2016-10-30 11:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-10-30 10:38 ` Igor Sosa Mayor
2016-11-04 7:13 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2016-11-04 8:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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