RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] xwinclip Test 01 (Cygwin/XFree86 and Windows clipboard integration)

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Corinna,

xwinclip currently only handles text selections, not files.  That is to our
advantage, because we can probably figure out the source and destination
text formats and convert accordingly.  I'm going to look at how Emacs does
it for some ideas.

However, files will be a little trickier, because we'll have to look through
the Cygwin mounts, searching for the destination drive, checking the mount
mode, then deciding whether we need to convert the text format.

I believe it can all be done to a satisfactory level, but it will take some
time to get it right.

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Corinna
> Vinschen
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 10:42 AM
> To: Cygwin-Xfree
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] xwinclip Test 01 (Cygwin/XFree86 and Windows
> clipboard integration)
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 04:03:40PM +0200, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Links:
> > > >
> > > > I just posted Test 01 to the xwinclip development page:
> > > > http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/xwinclip/
> > > >
> > > > xwinclip binary and source code releases are available via the
> > > > sources.redhat.com ftp mirror network
> > > > (http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html) in the
> > > > pub/cygwin/xfree/devel/xwinclip/ directory.  You may wish
> to note the
> > > > desired filename in the links below, then download from your
> > > > closest mirror (http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html).
> > > >
> > > > xwinclip binary, direct link:
> > > >
> http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/xwinclip/xwinclip-Test01.exe.bz2 (9 KB)
> > > >
> > > > Server source, direct link:
> > > >
> http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/xwinclip/xwinclip-20010902-1252.
> tar.bz2 (5
> > > > KB)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Changes:
> > > >
> > > > 1) Copy text selections from Windows into Cygwin/XFree86 when
> > > > requested.
> > > >
> > > > 2) Copy text selections from Cygwin/XFree86 into Windows when
> > > > requested.
> > > >
> > One point I think has to be fixed: The unix newlines should be
> converted to dos
> > newlines
> > because some editors (I have tested notepad and ultraedit on
> w2k) can't handle
> > unix linefeeds.
>
> Gack! That would hit people which are using Cygwin tools on binmode
> mounts. I disagree to that suggestion. At least notepad is not an editor
> but just a text control w/o noticeable functionality. I don't know
> ultraedit, though.
>
> Corinna
>
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