New feature: copy links to OS clipboard #12
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+ IMPORTANT: See below for 'issues'...
+ New function w3m--send-to-gui-clipboard
+ New defcustom w3m-gui-clipboard-commands
+ Feature applied to existing functions that copy link
information to the emacs kill-ring.
+ w3m-print-current-url
+ w3m-print-this-url
+ w3m-print-this-image-url
+ w3m-lnum-print-this-url
+ New docstrings for some functions
+ ISSUES
+ BUG! I'm still having trouble getting defcustom to do
what I want. In this case, customize-variable
improperly displays the car of each cons cell as the
first radio button on the list.
+ MISSING INFORMATION! I'm only familiar with linux, so I
wasn't able to populate w3m-gui-clipboard-commands for
other operating systems. Even if someone gives me a set
of command strings, I have no way of testing them.
+ Tsuchiya-san recently expressed interest in a 'private
browsing' mode for emacs-w3m.
+ This feature does make browsing a little less private
in that anything copied to the emacs kill-ring is
shared with the OS clipboard.
+ I can easily set a configuration value for the
feature, but it might be more forward-thinking to
label that value generically as something like
w3m-private-mode instead of something specific like
w3m-kill-ring-copies-to-os-clipboard.
+ It might just be best to wait until there exists a
more detailed specification or expectation of what
some private-mode would offer. For example, it may be
decided to allow the copies, and upon exit to clear
both the emacs kill-ring and the OS clipboard.
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This is a feature that I find very useful and convenient, and I have been using a defadvice version of it for a few years. However, as a pull request, the commit has two serious flaws that I need help with:
SUMMARY: If you use linux, and you don't use customize-variable, this pull-request is great and complete! |
+ They need to be escaped as '%%' in order to be properly read by the shell 'printf' command.
IMPORTANT: See below for 'issues'...
New function w3m--send-to-gui-clipboard
New defcustom w3m-gui-clipboard-commands
Feature applied to existing functions that copy link
information to the emacs kill-ring.
New docstrings for some functions
ISSUES
BUG! I'm still having trouble getting defcustom to do
what I want. In this case, customize-variable
improperly displays the car of each cons cell as the
first radio button on the list.
MISSING INFORMATION! I'm only familiar with linux, so I
wasn't able to populate w3m-gui-clipboard-commands for
other operating systems. Even if someone gives me a set
of command strings, I have no way of testing them.
Tsuchiya-san recently expressed interest in a 'private
browsing' mode for emacs-w3m.
This feature does make browsing a little less private
in that anything copied to the emacs kill-ring is
shared with the OS clipboard.
I can easily set a configuration value for the
feature, but it might be more forward-thinking to
label that value generically as something like
w3m-private-mode instead of something specific like
w3m-kill-ring-copies-to-os-clipboard.
It might just be best to wait until there exists a
more detailed specification or expectation of what
some private-mode would offer. For example, it may be
decided to allow the copies, and upon exit to clear
both the emacs kill-ring and the OS clipboard.