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24.1.50; Unrecognized pasteboard formats quit yank in Emacs.app

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#4871: closed (23.1.50; Quit: "empty or unsupported pasteboard
 type")
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:50:02 +0000

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From: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: 23.1.50; Quit: "empty or unsupported pasteboard type"
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:05:30 +0000

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

1. Emacs -q
2. (setq save-interprogram-paste-before-kill t)
3. Highlight some region and hit M-w

You should hear a beap and then a message in the echo area `` Quit:
"empty or unsupported pasteboard type" ''.

In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.8.0, NS apple-appkit-949.54)
 of 2009-09-22 on neutron.local
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.949
configured using `configure  '--with-ns''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Leo

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From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Jason T. Miller <jtm <at> jasomill.at>
Cc: 12183-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12183: 24.1.50;
	Unrecognized pasteboard formats quit yank in Emacs.app
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 16:48:30 +0200

Hello.

11 aug 2012 kl. 22:02 skrev Jason T. Miller <jtm <at> jasomill.at>:

> 1. Start Emacs.app in OS X (or, presumably, GNUstep). On OS X,
>    $PATH_TO_EMACS_APP/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q
> is fine.
> 
> 2. Load something in the pasteboard that lacks a plain text representation*.
> 
> 3. Yank. Emacs aborts the yank with the quit message "empty or unsupported
> pasteboard type".
> 
> From my perspective at least, this behavior is never useful, frequently annoying,
> and particularly painful when `save-interprogram-paste-before-kill' is enabled.
> My preferred solution is for Emacs to simply ignore unsupported pasteboard data.
> For example, replacing
> 
>    (defun ns-get-pasteboard ()
>      "Returns the value of the pasteboard."
>      (ns-get-selection-internal 'CLIPBOARD))
> 
> with
> 
>    (defun ns-get-pasteboard ()
>      "Returns the value of the pasteboard, or nil for unsupported formats."
>     (condition-case nil
>         (ns-get-selection-internal 'CLIPBOARD)
>       (quit nil)))
> 
> has this effect, while retaining the old behavior in the Objective-C
> implementation for applications that require special handling for empty,
> unrecognized, and invalid pasteboard data.

I checked in your suggestion in to the trunk.  Emacs beeps too much, I don't think it should beep when scrolling hits top or bottom for example.

Thanks,

	Jan D.

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