GNU bug report logs - #2534
NS: clipboard-kill-ring-save and clipboard-yank etc. not available

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: NS: clipboard-kill-ring-save and clipboard-yank etc. not available
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 22:13:47 -0500

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A number of functions such as `clipboard-kill-ring-save' are not  
available in the NS port because term/ns-win.el unbinds them.
It took me a long time to figure out, because they are pre-loaded in  
menu-bar.el and present in `load-history'.

In the interest of compatibility with existing Emacs 22 code, and also  
with Emacs 23 code written on other platforms, these functions should  
exist and do what they're documented to do.

Note that commands like `ns-copy-including-secondary' are bound to  
menu bar items and to shortcuts such as Command-C (when CUA mode is  
off), but they are not documented.  I would happily write some  
docstrings, but it isn't clear to me why one would always want to set  
the secondary "cut buffer" in this situation.



term/ns-win.el:

;; Must come after keybindings.

(fmakunbound 'clipboard-yank)
(fmakunbound 'clipboard-kill-ring-save)
(fmakunbound 'clipboard-kill-region)
(fmakunbound 'menu-bar-enable-clipboard)

...

(defun ns-copy-including-secondary ()
  (interactive)
  (call-interactively 'kill-ring-save)
  (ns-store-cut-buffer-internal 'SECONDARY
				(buffer-substring (point) (mark t))))
(defun ns-paste-secondary ()
  (interactive)
  (insert (ns-get-cut-buffer-internal 'SECONDARY)))

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Message #12 received at 2534 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
To: 2534 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: NS: clipboard-kill-ring-save and clipboard-yank etc. not available
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 23:40:19 +0200

> A number of functions such as `clipboard-kill-ring-save' are not
> available in the NS port because term/ns-win.el unbinds them.
> It took me a long time to figure out, because they are pre-loaded in
> menu-bar.el and present in `load-history'.

To to you the truth I'm not sure ATM why these are unbound.  You  
could try commenting those lines out and seeing if anything bad happens.


> Note that commands like `ns-copy-including-secondary' are bound to
> menu bar items and to shortcuts such as Command-C (when CUA mode is
> off), but they are not documented.  I would happily write some
> docstrings, but it isn't clear to me why one would always want to set
> the secondary "cut buffer" in this situation.

These are mainly for running under GNUstep in X windows, where the  
semantics of the two selection buffers have been confused for a long  
time, so it made sense just to throw things into both.  These  
commands are bound to keys and I believe discussed in the manual.  If  
you think they could be documented better, or should be enabled only  
under GNUstep, please go ahead with such changes.

Message #17 received at 2534-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: David Reitter <reitter <at> cmu.edu>
To: 2534-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: fixed
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 12:27:46 -0400

fixed by removing the apparently obsolete code in term/ns-win.el that  
deletes these functions

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