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bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional |
Date: |
Tue, 06 Jul 2021 18:45:15 +0300 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Hi-Angel@yandex.ru, 27442@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2021 16:18:18 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> Hm... I don't really see any with our current low-level
> >> functions. I think x-get-selection-internal could have returned more
> >> metadata -- the timestamp, for instance, which would have allowed us to
> >> see whether we ourselves really pushed the data to the clipboard.
> >
> > Where would that time stamp come from?
>
> Selections have time stamps
In the clipboard? supported by all the systems and all the clipboard
varieties out there?
> so we could compare the time stamp from
> when we pushed the data onto the clipboard with what we have. I think?
Is it reasonable to assume that close enough time stamps necessarily
mean we are the owner?
> > I admit I don't really understand what the patch does and how. can
> > you elaborate on that?
>
> It just makes `M-x clipboard-yank' defeat the "check for duplicates"
> logic and always return the contents of the clipboard.
But that would mean we throw away the baby together with the
bathwater, no? Why would we want to do that?
- bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/05
- bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional, Stefan Monnier, 2021/07/05
- bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/05
- bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional, Stefan Monnier, 2021/07/05
- bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/05
- bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/05
- bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/05
- bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/06
- bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/06
- bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/06
- bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/07/06
- bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/07/06