From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can't paste from files with .arc extension Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:31:25 +0200 Message-ID: References: <397b3f92-b993-4ea0-9f01-582b96e269dd@34g2000hsz.googlegroups.com> <72d00b40-1966-4828-9821-f833dea47b40@h11g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205008450 20847 80.91.229.12 (8 Mar 2008 20:34:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 20:34:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 08 21:34:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JY5kY-0003ZB-5L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:34:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JY5k0-00038D-45 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:34:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JY5iC-00015t-Kt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:32:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JY5i8-00012S-Un for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:32:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JY5i8-00012N-Ov for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:32:04 -0500 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JY5i8-000675-Ep for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:32:04 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-209-15.inter.net.il [80.230.209.15]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id JLJ65769 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 8 Mar 2008 22:29:00 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <72d00b40-1966-4828-9821-f833dea47b40@h11g2000prf.googlegroups.com> (message from Brian Adkins on Sat, 8 Mar 2008 07:27:32 -0800 (PST)) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52163 Archived-At: > From: Brian Adkins > Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 07:27:32 -0800 (PST) > > I thought that inclusion of the .arc extension in the auto-coding- > alist meant that emacs considered the file to be binary and thus would > not paste contents into another application. Are you saying that the > expected behavior is for emacs to paste anyway? Yes, I don't see any reason why printable characters from a binary file could not be pasted into another application. Emacs has a way of dealing with characters that cannot be safely put into the X selection (it replaces them with `?'s or some such), if that's what you thought could prevent copy-paste. So I encourage you to report this as a bug. Thanks.