[bongo-devel] Re: Missing x-get-selection, m3u wish

[Daniel Jensen]

Dieter Deyke <address@hidden> writes:

> I am trying to use bongo-insert-uri on my emacs running natively on
> Windows XP, but do get a missing function error for x-get-selection.
> Could it be that the code using it is X windows specific?

I think I found the bug, but I cannot test it myself. On MS Windows,
x-get-selection is redefined, but x-get-clipboard is not. Does this
patch fix the problem for you?

--- bongo-old/bongo.el  2007-01-15 14:15:44.000000000 +0100
+++ bongo-new/bongo.el  2007-02-03 11:53:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -6171,7 +6171,7 @@
                      (let ((primary (x-get-selection)))
                        (and (bongo-uri-p primary) primary)))
                 (and (x-selection-exists-p 'CLIPBOARD)
-                     (let ((clipboard (x-get-clipboard)))
+                     (let ((clipboard (x-get-selection 'CLIPBOARD)))
                        (and (bongo-uri-p clipboard) clipboard)))))
           (uri
            (read-string (concat "Insert URI"

> BTW, it would be nice to be able to insert .m3u files into a playlist
> buffer.

You can customize `bongo-custom-backend-matchers' for this. Or maybe
you would like the m3u files to be handled in a special way?