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

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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.

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