[debbugs-tracker] bug#4871: closed (23.1.50; Quit: "empty or unsupported pasteboard type")

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and subject line Re: bug#12183: 24.1.50; Unrecognized pasteboard formats quit 
yank in Emacs.app
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regarding 23.1.50; Quit: "empty or unsupported pasteboard type"
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> 23.1.50; Quit: "empty or unsupported pasteboard type"
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> Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:05:30 +0000
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> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
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> 1. Emacs -q
> 2. (setq save-interprogram-paste-before-kill t)
> 3. Highlight some region and hit M-w
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> You should hear a beap and then a message in the echo area `` Quit:
> "empty or unsupported pasteboard type" ''.
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> In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.8.0, NS apple-appkit-949.54)
>  of 2009-09-22 on neutron.local
> Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.949
> configured using `configure  '--with-ns''
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> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
>   value of $LC_TIME: nil
>   value of $LANG: nil
>   value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
>   locale-coding-system: nil
>   default enable-multibyte-characters: t
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> Leo
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> Re: bug#12183: 24.1.50;	Unrecognized pasteboard formats quit yank in Emacs.app
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> Sat, 8 Sep 2012 16:48:30 +0200
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> Hello.
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> 11 aug 2012 kl. 22:02 skrev Jason T. Miller <address@hidden>:
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> > 1. Start Emacs.app in OS X (or, presumably, GNUstep). On OS X,
> >    $PATH_TO_EMACS_APP/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -Q
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> > 2. Load something in the pasteboard that lacks a plain text representation*.
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> > 3. Yank. Emacs aborts the yank with the quit message "empty or unsupported
> > pasteboard type".
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> > From my perspective at least, this behavior is never useful, frequently 
> > annoying,
> > and particularly painful when `save-interprogram-paste-before-kill' is 
> > enabled.
> > My preferred solution is for Emacs to simply ignore unsupported pasteboard 
> > data.
> > For example, replacing
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> >    (defun ns-get-pasteboard ()
> >      "Returns the value of the pasteboard."
> >      (ns-get-selection-internal 'CLIPBOARD))
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> > with
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> >    (defun ns-get-pasteboard ()
> >      "Returns the value of the pasteboard, or nil for unsupported formats."
> >     (condition-case nil
> >         (ns-get-selection-internal 'CLIPBOARD)
> >       (quit nil)))
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> > has this effect, while retaining the old behavior in the Objective-C
> > implementation for applications that require special handling for empty,
> > unrecognized, and invalid pasteboard data.
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> I checked in your suggestion in to the trunk.  Emacs beeps too much, I don't 
> think it should beep when scrolling hits top or bottom for example.
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> Thanks,
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>         Jan D.
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