Re: trying to figure out alternative cut and paste (Eric S. Johansson)
Eric S. Johansson writes:
I guess I was approaching in a backwards fashion wondering if
anybody knew how one uses the Windows copy and paste commands to
get information to or from an application. Would this alternative
method work with Emacs and not get in the way of the normal Emacs
keystrokes?
I don't know the platform-specific details, but I believe you can find
out what's going on by starting from the variables
`interprogram-cut-function' and `interprogram-paste-function'. These
by default point to generic functions which dispatch to low-level
platform-specific functions IIRC.
In thinking about this, I start wondering if there was an
alternative. Could one mirror the visible portion of the Emacs
buffer into another Windows edit control?
You could, but this might be somewhat difficult to implement.
Emacs does have a feature called "indirect buffers", where the same
buffer text is shared by two buffers which can have completely
different settings otherwise. Perhaps the indirect buffer could be
narrowed to the visible portion.
magic, other days it's special like sped. I'm thinking that
if I
could just have a second window that was designed to work with
speech recognition automatically like some of the standard edit
controls are, is it possible to synchronize the two windows? You
type into one, it appears in both. I'm planning on some magic for
making it possible to edit code using this model but it's important
to be able to synchronize the display windows on both sides.
The right person to talk to is Jerry James <james(a)xemacs.org>. I'm a
little surprised he hasn't spoken up yet. Ben Wing <ben(a)xemacs.org>
also used some kind of speech recognition software (Dragon-something?)
You could write them off-list. Note that both are subscribed to this
list, so their lack of response so far indicates that they are busy
with other things at the moment. Courtesy is indicated, but both
welcome polite inquiries when they're not active on the list as far as
I know (ie, you can blame me for disturbing their naps! :-)
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