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From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: Rens Oliemans <hallo@rensoliemans.nl>,
	 org-mode-email <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add yank-media handler for LibreOffice Calc tables
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 08:23:09 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878qs5bxm2.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875xnajn21.fsf@localhost> (Ihor Radchenko's message of "Mon, 23 Dec 2024 18:01:42 +0000")

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[திங்கள் டிசம்பர் 23, 2024] Ihor Radchenko wrote:

>> I have now done this in the attached patch.  I use a temporary buffer to
>> convert the table, and also decode it as per buffer-file-coding-system
>> of the Org buffer as I could not tell whether LibreOffice always uses
>> UTF-8 or not.  I believe buffer-file-coding-system should be utf-8 on
>> most systems so it should be a safe choice.
>
> utf-8 is not used everywhere. Quite far from that, AFAIK.
> You can try 'undecided as coding system value (see 34.10.7 Explicit
> Encoding and Decoding)

Ah thank you, I missed it.  Using it now.

>>  When yanking images from clipboard, Org saves the image on disk and
>> @@ -21702,6 +21703,9 @@ of ~org-yank-dnd-method~.  Image files
>> pasted this way also respect
>>  the value of ~org-yank-image-save-method~ when the action to perform
>>  is =attach=.
>>  
>> +Yanking tables copied from LibreOffice Calc documents are inserted as
>> +Org tables.
>
> Looks like "yanking" is stray.

I reworded it to

    Tables copied from LibreOffice Calc documents are yanked as Org
    tables.

Updated patch attached below.


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From 39aeafc4b748110562044e9488097bf0b8de3a64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 22:04:23 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Add `yank-media' handler for LibreOffice Calc tables

* lisp/org.el (org--libreoffice-table-handler): Add new `yank-media'
handler for tables copied from LibreOffice Calc documents.
(org-setup-yank-dnd-handlers): Register it.
* doc/org-manual.org: (Drag and Drop & ~yank-media~): Update the
manual to mention the new feature.
* etc/ORG-NEWS: Announce the new feature.
---
 doc/org-manual.org |  6 +++++-
 etc/ORG-NEWS       |  5 +++++
 lisp/org.el        | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/org-manual.org b/doc/org-manual.org
index 451fd72cd..8a58b9966 100644
--- a/doc/org-manual.org
+++ b/doc/org-manual.org
@@ -21640,7 +21640,8 @@ value as ~org-attach-method~ (~cp~ by default).]
 
 #+cindex: pasting files, images from clipboard
 Starting from Emacs 29, Org mode supports ~yank-media~ command to yank
-images from the clipboard and files from a file manager.
+images from the clipboard, files from a file manager and tables copied
+from LibreOffice Calc documents.
 
 #+vindex: org-yank-image-save-method
 When yanking images from clipboard, Org saves the image on disk and
@@ -21658,6 +21659,9 @@ of ~org-yank-dnd-method~.  Image files pasted this way also respect
 the value of ~org-yank-image-save-method~ when the action to perform
 is =attach=.
 
+Tables copied from LibreOffice Calc documents are yanked as Org
+tables.
+
 ** Repeating commands
 :PROPERTIES:
 :DESCRIPTION: Repeating navigation commands
diff --git a/etc/ORG-NEWS b/etc/ORG-NEWS
index 5d421172f..37ee9a52f 100644
--- a/etc/ORG-NEWS
+++ b/etc/ORG-NEWS
@@ -114,6 +114,11 @@ The keybindings in the repeat-maps can be changed by customizing
 
 See the new [[info:org#Repeating commands]["Repeating commands"]] section in Org mode manual.
 
+*** Tables copied from LibreOffice Calc documents can be pasted as Org tables
+
+Tables copied into the clipboard from LibreOffice Calc documents can
+now be pasted as an Org table using ~yank-media~.
+
 ** New and changed options
 
 # Chanes deadling with changing default values of customizations,
diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index 6177856c3..1c08e6300 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -20860,7 +20860,9 @@ (defun org-setup-yank-dnd-handlers ()
     ;; Looks like different DEs go for different handler names,
     ;; https://larsee.com/blog/2019/05/clipboard-files/.
     (yank-media-handler "x/special-\\(?:gnome\\|KDE\\|mate\\)-files"
-                        #'org--copied-files-yank-media-handler))
+                        #'org--copied-files-yank-media-handler)
+    (yank-media-handler "application/x-libreoffice-tsvc"
+                        #'org--libreoffice-table-handler))
   (when (boundp 'x-dnd-direct-save-function)
     (setq-local x-dnd-direct-save-function #'org--dnd-xds-function)))
 
@@ -20953,6 +20955,29 @@ (defun org--copied-files-yank-media-handler (_mimetype data)
           (org--dnd-local-file-handler f action sep)
         (message "File `%s' is not readable, skipping" f)))))
 
+(defun org--libreoffice-table-handler (_mimetype data)
+  "Insert LibreOffice Calc table DATA as an Org table.
+DATA is in the TSV format."
+  ;; Some LibreOffice versions have the null byte in the selection.
+  ;; It should be safe to remove it.
+  (when (string-search "\0" data)
+    (setq data (string-replace "\0" "" data)))
+  (let ((orig-buf (current-buffer)))
+    (with-temp-buffer
+      (decode-coding-string data 'undecided nil (current-buffer))
+      (let ((tmp (current-buffer))
+            (nlines (count-lines (point-min) (point-max))))
+        (when (> nlines org-table-convert-region-max-lines)
+          (unless (yes-or-no-p
+                   (format "Inserting large table with %d lines, more than `org-table-convert-region-max-lines'.  Continue? "
+                           nlines))
+            (user-error "Table is larger than limit `org-table-convert-region-max-lines'")))
+        ;; User has chosen to ignore the limit.
+        (let ((org-table-convert-region-max-lines most-positive-fixnum))
+          (org-table-convert-region (point-min) (point-max)))
+        (with-current-buffer orig-buf
+          (insert-buffer-substring tmp))))))
+
 (defcustom org-yank-dnd-method 'ask
   "Action to perform on the dropped and the pasted files.
 When the value is the symbol,
-- 
2.45.2


  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-24  2:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-14 16:36 [PATCH] Add yank-media handler for LibreOffice Calc tables Visuwesh
2024-10-14 18:58 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-10-15  5:57   ` Visuwesh
2024-10-15 18:42     ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-10-17 17:19       ` Visuwesh
2024-10-17 17:37         ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-10-18 16:45           ` Visuwesh
2024-10-19  7:10             ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-10-19  7:36               ` Visuwesh
2024-10-19  7:08         ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-10-19  7:35           ` Visuwesh
2024-10-19  7:42             ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-10-19  8:45               ` Visuwesh
2024-10-19  8:51                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-10-19  9:06                   ` Visuwesh
2024-10-19 10:09                     ` Rens Oliemans
2024-10-19 10:36                       ` Visuwesh
2024-10-21  8:51                         ` Rens Oliemans
2024-10-21 10:34                           ` Visuwesh
2024-11-29 14:05                             ` Visuwesh
2024-12-23 18:01                               ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-12-24  2:53                                 ` Visuwesh [this message]
2024-12-24  9:19                                   ` Ihor Radchenko

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