Re: Yanking as HTML

[Daniel Colascione]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> writes:

> I've tried googling for this for a few minutes, but I haven't found
> anything promising (without relying on uncommon external programs).
>
> I sometimes copy text from Firefox to Emacs, and when I'm pasting into
> HTML documents, I would sometimes prefer to retain the HTML formatting
> of what I'm copying.
>
> Does Emacs have support for this somehow?  And if not, has anybody
> thought about what this support should look like?  Obviously, the user
> must be able to control "how much" richness should be yanked when
> yanking (just the text; the HTML formatting; perhaps images too?).

A long time ago, I implemented support for rich-text copying _out_ of
Emacs in the HAVE_NTGUI case, but that code never landed in the
tree. The feature you're requesting is pretty straightforward to
implement, but it needs platform-specific C code. I agree about the user
options for controlling it --- perhaps on an operation-by-operation
basis via some kind of special prefix flag.