bug#41168: Add variable to limit save-interprogram-paste-before-kill by size

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

ndame <ndame@protonmail.com> writes:

> How about a variable which allows the user to limit the size of data saved on 
> the kill
> ring? Data larger than the limit is not copied.
>
> save-interprogram-paste-before-kill  itself could specify this limit. If it's 
> not t but a
> number then it's the limit as number of bytes or maybe kilobytes, because I 
> imagine
> the user sets such a limit to at least a few hundred kilobytes or higher.

This is now implemented in Emacs 28.  (And the limit is in characters.)

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