Re: yank-media: allow users to limit image types that can be inserted

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:11:50 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:

    >> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:34:48 +0300
    >> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
    >> Cc: visuweshm@gmail.com, pinmacs@cas.cat, emacs-devel@gnu.org
    >> 
    >> And anyway, this is not what the OP said.  Let's get back to what he
    >> said:

    Eli> Sorry, I somehow managed to delete this part.  Here's what I intended
    Eli> to say:

    Eli>  And anyway, this is not what the OP said.  Let's get back to what he
    Eli>  said:

    Eli>   1. In case I want to be fast, I would like to skip that dialog 
entirely 
    Eli>   and just use the image/png variant.
    Eli>   2. In another perspective, I would consider that the relevant 
decision 
    Eli>   for a screenshot would be between two of them: image/png and 
image/jpeg
    Eli>   3. Another user could argue why the other 5 types are interesting in 
    Eli>   general or for their particular use case...

    Eli>   ... but let's stop that discussion here. Looks like filtering image 
    Eli>   types would be a useful customization for the users. If done as a 
    Eli>   variable, in certain cases, that could be local binded and specific 
to 
    Eli>   some fast function that immediately inserts an image, and in another 
    Eli>   case, the global var would select only those image types relevant 
for 
    Eli>   that particular user.

    Eli> You pay attention only to the first part, with its 3 cases, but I
    Eli> think that the main part is the second paragraph, which seems to ask
    Eli> for a much more wide feature, and doesn't explain its motivation or
    Eli> context.

I took the second part as 'if we had such a variable, users could
let-bind it around yank-media to get "insert now" behaviour, and have
a global value that trims the available list'.

Robert
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