[Aquamacs-devel] [Aquamacs-bugs] more keybinding weirdness

[David Reitter]

On Feb 26, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Nathaniel Cunningham wrote:
> It's just as you say, David:  We opted not to have basic "kill" commands append their kills to the NS pasteboard (only clipboard-kill and similar commands should do so).  Yet, (current-kill 0), called by (yank), always uses the result of (funcall interprogram-paste-function) (and adds the resulting string it to the kill-ring) if `interprogram-paste-function' is defined.
> 
> In order to get this working, and still avoid every kill going to the pasteboard, we have a couple of options:
> -- depending on how (yank) is called, determine whether or not to consult the pasteboard at all.  Perhaps only consult it if called by (clipboard-kill) or (cua) functions.

Then, when CUA and  osx-key-mode are off, users have no direct way of pasting the system clipboard.

> -- keep track of what occurred most recently: a kill or the setting of the system pasteboard.  That was all kept track of directly in the pasteboard, before, since kills went there too.
> 

The easiest route seems to be to do exactly what the NS port does  unless CUA or-key-mode are on.  When yanking, consult that variable.


> I will take a look at whether to change the value of `interprogram-paste-function' in a let construct in the `clipboard-paste' and related functions.  But I won't get to thi osx s until tomorrow evening or Sunday.
>  
OK thanks, let me know!


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