annotate lisp/x-select.el @ 2620:5e906dd5c3e9

[xemacs-hg @ 2005-02-28 20:21:43 by aidan] (Revised) General X11 selection cleanup. Content negotiation for incoming data, UTF8_STRING support, the ability to paste images (purely cosmetic at this point), TIMESTAMP as one of the selection types offered,
author aidan
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1 ;;; x-select.el --- Lisp interface to X Selections.
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3 ;; Copyright (C) 1990, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4 ;; Copyright (C) 1995 Sun Microsystems.
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5
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6 ;; Maintainer: XEmacs Development Team
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7 ;; Keywords: extensions, dumped
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8
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9 ;; This file is part of XEmacs.
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10
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11 ;; XEmacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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12 ;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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13 ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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14 ;; any later version.
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16 ;; XEmacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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17 ;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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18 ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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19 ;; General Public License for more details.
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21 ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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22 ;; along with XEmacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
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23 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
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24 ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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25
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26 ;;; Synched up with: FSF 19.30 (select.el).
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27
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28 ;;; Commentary:
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29
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30 ;; This file is dumped with XEmacs (when X support is compiled in).
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31
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32 ;; The selection code requires us to use certain symbols whose names are
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33 ;; all upper-case; this may seem tasteless, but it makes there be a 1:1
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34 ;; correspondence between these symbols and X Atoms (which are upcased).
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35
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36 ;;; Code:
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38 (globally-declare-fboundp
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39 '(x-get-cutbuffer-internal
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40 x-rotate-cutbuffers-internal x-store-cutbuffer-internal))
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42 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'x-selection-exists-p 'selection-exists-p)
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43 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'x-selection-owner-p 'selection-owner-p)
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44 (define-obsolete-variable-alias 'x-selection-converter-alist 'selection-converter-alist)
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45 (define-obsolete-variable-alias 'x-lost-selection-hooks 'lost-selection-hooks)
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46 (define-obsolete-variable-alias 'x-selected-text-type 'selection-preferred-types)
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47 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'x-valid-simple-selection-p 'valid-simple-selection-p)
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48 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'x-own-selection 'own-selection)
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49 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'x-disown-selection 'disown-selection)
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50 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'x-delete-primary-selection 'delete-primary-selection)
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51 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'x-copy-primary-selection 'copy-primary-selection)
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52 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'x-kill-primary-selection 'kill-primary-selection)
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53 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'x-select-make-extent-for-selection
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54 'select-make-extent-for-selection)
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55 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'x-cut-copy-clear-internal 'cut-copy-clear-internal)
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56 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'x-get-selection 'get-selection)
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57 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'x-get-clipboard 'get-clipboard)
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58 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'x-yank-clipboard-selection
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59 'yank-clipboard-selection)
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60 (define-obsolete-function-alias 'x-disown-selection-internal
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61 'disown-selection-internal)
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63 (defun x-get-secondary-selection ()
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64 "Return text selected from some X window."
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65 (get-selection 'SECONDARY))
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67 (defun x-own-secondary-selection (selection &optional type)
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68 "Make a secondary X Selection of the given argument. The argument may be a
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69 string or a cons of two markers (in which case the selection is considered to
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70 be the text between those markers)."
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71 (interactive (if (not current-prefix-arg)
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72 (list (read-string "Store text for pasting: "))
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73 (list (cons ;; these need not be ordered.
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74 (copy-marker (point-marker))
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75 (copy-marker (mark-marker))))))
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76 (own-selection selection 'SECONDARY))
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78 (defun x-notice-selection-requests (selection type successful)
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79 "for possible use as the value of `x-sent-selection-hooks'."
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81 (message "Selection request failed to convert %s to %s"
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82 selection type)
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83 (message "Sent selection %s as %s" selection type)))
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85 (defun x-notice-selection-failures (selection type successful)
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86 "for possible use as the value of `x-sent-selection-hooks'."
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87 (or successful
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88 (message "Selection request failed to convert %s to %s"
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89 selection type)))
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91 ;(setq x-sent-selection-hooks 'x-notice-selection-requests)
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92 ;(setq x-sent-selection-hooks 'x-notice-selection-failures)
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95 ;;; Cut Buffer support
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97 ;;; FSF name x-get-cut-buffer
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98 (defun x-get-cutbuffer (&optional which-one)
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99 "Return the value of one of the 8 X server cut buffers.
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100 Optional arg WHICH-ONE should be a number from 0 to 7, defaulting to 0.
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101 Cut buffers are considered obsolete; you should use selections instead.
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102 This function does nothing if cut buffer support was not compiled in."
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103 (when (fboundp 'x-get-cutbuffer-internal)
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104 (x-get-cutbuffer-internal
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105 (aref [CUT_BUFFER0 CUT_BUFFER1 CUT_BUFFER2 CUT_BUFFER3
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106 CUT_BUFFER4 CUT_BUFFER5 CUT_BUFFER6 CUT_BUFFER7]
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107 (or which-one 0)))))
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109 ;;; FSF name x-set-cut-buffer
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110 (defun x-store-cutbuffer (string &optional push)
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111 "Store STRING into the X server's primary cut buffer.
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114 cut buffer, and the second to the third, and so on (there are 8 buffers.)
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115 Cut buffers are considered obsolete; you should use selections instead.
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116 This function does nothing if cut buffer support was not compiled in."
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117 (when (fboundp 'x-store-cutbuffer-internal)
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118 (when push
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119 (x-rotate-cutbuffers-internal 1))
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120 (x-store-cutbuffer-internal 'CUT_BUFFER0 string)))
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123 ;FSFmacs (provide 'select)
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125 ;;; x-select.el ends here.