Re: `M-x yank-media'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2021 14:12:54 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > This new command doesn't seem to work for me on MS-Windows: I get this
> > message:
> >
> >   user-error: No handler in the current buffer for anything on the clipboard
> >
> > The documentation doesn't seem to hint that something non-trivial is
> > needed for this to work.
> 
> I haven't tried this on Windows at all -- I have no idea what the
> clipboard stuff looks like over there.  (Or on Macos, but I had planned
> on exploring that.)

What does this require from the clipboard to work?  What are the
assumptions?

> > Also, should this be bound to a key?  Perhaps even C-y?
> 
> There are so few modes that support media yanking that it's premature to
> put it on any key, I think.  And certainly not on `C-y' -- that would
> break all sorts of things, I think.  (People marking text in a web
> browser and hitting `C-y' in a html-mode buffer still expect to get just
> the plain text, while `yank-media' will give them more options, like
> text/html.)

AFAIK, that's what "other applications" do: they paste the content
from the clipboard regardless of the type.  Fine-tuned behavior, where
the user can select exactly what he/she wants to past and how, is then
available from a context menu.