ANNOUNCEMENT: XEmacs patches repository

> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xemacs-nt(a)xemacs.org [mailto:owner-xemacs-nt＠xemacs.org]On > Behalf Of Ben Wing > Sent: 06 July 2000 05:57 > To: Alastair J. Houghton > Cc: Andy Piper; xemacs-nt(a)xemacs.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH] RTF Clipboard Support(!) > > in fact, i merged the windows stuff with the already-existing > generic code. I noticed. It looks quite cool ;-) > what i'd like to see is something like this: > > 1. The current function > > (defun own-selection (data &optional type append) > > should become > > (defun own-selection (data &optional type how-to-add data-type) > > where data-type is the mswindows format, and how-to-add is > > 'replace-all or nil -- remove data for all formats > 'replace-existing -- remove data for DATA-TYPE, but leave other > formats alone > 'append or t -- append data to existing data in DATA-TYPE, and leave other > formats alone > > 2. the function > > (get-selection &optional TYPE DATA-TYPE) > > already has a data-type so you don't need to change it. > > 3. the existing function > > (selection-exists-p &optional SELECTION DEVICE) > > should become > > (selection-exists-p &optional SELECTION DEVICE DATA-TYPE) > > 4. a new function > > (register-selection-data-type DATA-TYPE) > > like your mswindows-register-clipboard-format. > > 5. there's already a selection-converter-alist, but that's only > for data out. > you should alias it to selection-conversion-out-alist, and create > selection-conversion-in-alist. these alists contain entries for > CF_TEXT, which > handles CR/LF conversion, and rtf, which does rtf in/out > conversion -- no need > for separate functions to do this. > > this may seem daunting, but it's much less hard to add stuff like > this than it Actually it looks like quite good fun ;-) > seems, and i and others will certainly give you lots of support > if you run into > problems. it would be way cool to have a more powerful clipboard > mechanism in > XEmacs. Yeah. I agree. I will have a go as soon as I've got the latest code. Kind Regards, Alastair. ____________________________________________________________ Alastair Houghton ajhoughton(a)lineone.net