Re: emacs support for multiple clipboard formats

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.windows
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: Stephen Leake <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 02:15:53 -0400
> 
> > I was wondering if any work has been done to access the other formats,
> > like HTML, which as you say is all ASCII text. It would be super to
> > paste such HTML into org-mode, for example, and have it just pick up
> > the hyperlinks.
> 
> So the issue is how to get Emacs to understand how to request the set of
> available formats from the clipboard, and how to select one.

Emacs already does that, see w32select.c.  It just doesn't support
CF_HTML format yet.

> Also then to present that list to the user.

What for?  Emacs currently includes logic for selecting the best
format out of those available.  Why would adding support for CF_HTML
need to change that?
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