[OS X Emacs] pasting from other apps

Jean-Christophe Helary jean.christophe.helary at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 19:53:02 EDT 2009


On 15 oct. 2009, at 05:10, David Reitter wrote:

> On Oct 14, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>>>> I am pasting cells from Calc into a new buffer in Aquamacs 1.9  
>>>> and instead of getting a list of contents separated by line  
>>>> breaks, I get something else. It looks like an image, it can't be  
>>>> edited, it is not text and I can't do anything with that.
>>
>> Drop Inspector gives me a long list of things, among which I have  
>> public.utf8-plain-text, public.utf16-external-plain-text,  
>> com.apple.traditional-mac-plain-text, but also XML, WMF, TIFF,  
>> PICT, HTML etc...
>
>
> It seems like one of the image formats is being preferred.  It's  
> possibly that this is because the sending process (Calc) states so,  
> which would be odd.    But I don't know the Carbon pasteboard  
> handling mechanism, so this is speculation.
>
> Does this work better in 2.x?  We have completely rewritten  
> pasteboard code in there.

Yes, I just tried with the nightly build and it works as expected.  
Thank you.

JC



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