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Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 27442 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Hi-Angel <at> yandex.ru
Subject: bug#27442: Un-obsolete x-clipboard-yank, or provide analogous functional
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2021 14:21:04 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,  Hi-Angel <at> yandex.ru,  27442 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 22:11:22 +0200
> 
> (kill-new "foo")
> (gui-selection-value)
> => nil
> 
> Could we use a different way to identify this situation that's less
> fragile?

AFAIK, there's no reasonable way of doing a better check.

> Hm...  I don't really see any with our current low-level
> functions.  I think x-get-selection-internal could have returned more
> metadata -- the timestamp, for instance, which would have allowed us to
> see whether we ourselves really pushed the data to the clipboard.

Where would that time stamp come from?

> My analysis here may be wrong, but if this is the reason the code in
> that function is the way it is, I think the right fix here is the
> trivial patch I proposed, along with more comments in
> `gui-selection-value' that explains what the point of the
> duplicate-ignoring code is.

I admit I don't really understand what the patch does and how.  can
you elaborate on that?

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