Re: master 99c637499e: Only apply last change to the clipboard

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:50:19 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > It returns nil here in both cases.  This is with today's master.
> 
> Hmm, that means the result is not useful for `gui-selection-value'.
> Would there be a way to implement that feature on MS-Windows?
> 
> The simplest way to implement it would be to return `t' if Emacs stored
> the text currently in the clipboard.

What would be the purpose of that?  What would you like to do with
"ownership" of the clipboard data, and why?

Emacs on Windows already tries internally to keep track of whether the
stuff in the clipboard was put there by the current session, so I'm
not sure why else would you need this.