Re: Can't paste from files with .arc extension

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 08.03.2008 um 22:21 schrieb Stefan Monnier:

> > I thought that inclusion of the .arc extension in the auto-coding-
> > alist meant that emacs considered the file to be binary and thus  
> > would
> > not paste contents into another application. Are you saying that the
> > expected behavior is for emacs to paste anyway?
>
> It should paste something.  At least the ascii part of the binary  
> stream
> (i.e. the byte codes 0-127) should be copy/pastable.


Pasting from GNU Emacs a selection with control characters (for  
example from a *Backtrace* buffer that contains parts of an ELC file)  
into a Mac OS X application makes 0 bytes appear there. A similiar  
behaviour can be observed with vi(m) in an XTerm. Pasting the same  
few control characters directly into XTerm can do funny things ... In  
the end no resemblance is left.

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