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30.0.50; kill-ring with no X

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: m43cap <at> yandex.com, larsi <at> gnus.org, 64927 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64927: 30.0.50; kill-ring with no X
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2023 21:26:47 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: m43cap <at> yandex.com,  64927 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  larsi <at> gnus.org
> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2023 12:30:36 -0400
> 
> I think this problem was noticed when the new feature was introduced and
> we fixed the generation of the kill-ring menu, but apparently nobody
> fixed the problem in the second part of the code which generates the
> kill-ring (I remember I mentioned at the time that we should try and
> consolidate those two code paths).

Looks like that, yes.

> > Do you see any reasonably practical way to get that back?
> 
> The best we can do is to use `key-valid-p` as a best-effort test to
> decide whether we're in the presence of the new or the old format, but
> it will inevitably suffer from false positives/negatives.

Not sure I understand: if key-valid-p returns nil, what do you suggest
to do with "keys" such as those produced in the scenario of this bug
report?

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