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[PATCH] Add yank-media-handler for copied files from file manager

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Message #26 received at 77731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: visuweshm <at> gmail.com, luangruo <at> yahoo.com
Cc: 77731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#77731: [PATCH] Add yank-media-handler for copied files from
 file manager
Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 12:27:32 +0300

Ping! Ping!  Would people please respond?

> Cc: luangruo <at> yahoo.com, 77731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:25:39 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Ping!  How can we make progress with this issue?
> 
> > From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  77731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 18:41:08 +0530
> > 
> > [வெள்ளி ஏப்ரல் 11, 2025] Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" wrote:
> > 
> > >> The name and the doc string should be more specific to the file
> > >> managers for which this is supposed to work.  I doubt that these
> > >> details are general enough to say that any file manager capable of
> > >> copy/pasting files will behave like that.
> > >
> > >> Btw, isn't copy/paste of files similar or maybe even equivalent to
> > >> drag-n-drop?  If so, perhaps a better way would be to use the DND
> > >> machinery we have in Emacs?  Adding Po Lu in case he has opinions or
> > >> comments about this.
> > >
> > > Regrettably not, since the formats concerned differ subtly and DND gives
> > > a weight to negotiating actions on dropped data that is undue for a
> > > simple copy/paste operation.  The selection formats you must recognize
> > > are `text/uri-list' (which is identical to its Xdnd variant), FILE_NAME,
> > > and FILE, which are NULL-separated lists of strings, and numerous ad hoc
> > > formats defined by file managers and desktop environments.
> > 
> > What's wrong with doing the following?
> > 
> >     (defun message--yank-media-copied-files-handler (_ data)
> >       "Attach files copied/cut from the file manager.
> >     DATA is a string where the first line is the operation to
> >     perform: copy or cut.  Rest are file: links.  The operation is
> >     always ignored, and the files are only attached."
> >       (let ((files (split-string data "[\0\n\r]" t)))
> >         (dnd-handle-multiple-urls (selected-window)
> >                                   (cdr files)
> >                                   (pcase (car files)
> >                                     (`"copy" 'copy)
> >                                     (`"cut" 'move)
> >                                     (_ 'private)))))
> > 
> > It calls mml-dnd-attach-file in message-mode buffer.
> > 
> > > If you like, you may implement a rough draft that functions
> > > satisfactorily with whatever file managers you test, and I shall supply
> > > its deficiencies as best I can.
> > 
> > Considering that text/uri-list and friends seem to be considered in
> > others part of the code, is there a function that would parse its
> > format?
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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