I too was thinking of making the change to org-get-x-clipboard-compat instead, but somehow decided not to. It calls x-get-selection and the latter, while it does have w32-specific flavor (in w32-common-fns.el), doesn't seem to support clipboard and its primary purpose is stated as "Fix interface to (X-specific) mouse.el." As far as org-no-properties goes, I don't think it will make any difference on Windows because it looks like only plain text is supported (see e.g. http://www.mail-archive.com/help-emacs-windows@gnu.org/msg03026.html and the code in http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/src/w32select.c) anyway. So it is hard to say where the patch clearly belongs (w32-common-fns.el (x-get-selection) perhaps?). I can move it to org-get-x-clipboard-compat of course but some change would still need to be done to org-get-x-clipboard because it checks for (eq window-system 'x) explicitly. Let me know what works better. Thanks Alex On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Fabrice Popineau < fabrice.popineau@supelec.fr> wrote: > Yes, you could lift the patch up to `org-get-x-clipboard-compat', > but this way, ňrg-no-properties' would be applied to the w32 data too. > Is that relevant? I don't know if w32 clipboard data can have text > properties. > > Fabrice > > > 2013/11/18 Bastien > >> Hi Alexander, >> >> Alexander Vorobiev writes: >> >> > Sorry for the mis-formatting. Here is the patch as an attachment. >> >> Thanks -- digging into this again, maybe we need to fix >> `org-get-x-clipboard-compat' directly? >> >> I'm not using Windows so I can't test the patch. >> >> Can a Windows user help here? >> >> -- >> Bastien >> >> > > > -- > Fabrice Popineau > ----------------------------- > SUPELEC > Département Informatique > 3, rue Joliot Curie > 91192 Gif/Yvette Cedex > Tel direct : +33 (0) 169851950 > Standard : +33 (0) 169851212 > ------------------------------ > >