Re: `M-x yank-media'

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> (gui-get-selection 'CLIPBOARD 'image/png)
>> 
>> and then some slight massaging; see yank-media--get-selection.
>
> I cannot figure out from that code what kind of "data" is expected
> from the above call.  For example, if the data in the clipboard is an
> image?

Yes, on GNU/Linux, that call will return a string containing the image
data. 

> Then that's non-portable, because this stuff is not standardized
> enough, AFAIK.  We need more layers to hide platforms-specifics, I
> think.

Yup.  (Or rather, non-Linux systems should emulate Linux here somewhat.)

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