The function
selection
returns the contents of the primary selection as a string, or
nil
if there is no selection.
format controls what kind of object is read. The following values of format are recognized:
The object is a string. This the default value.
The object is of type image, converted from whatever format the platform supports.
The object is the Lisp value.
When
format
is
:image
, the image returned by
selection
is associated with
self
, so you can free it explicitly with free-image or it will be freed automatically when the pane is destroyed.
On Microsoft Windows there is no notion of selection, so this mechanism is internal to Lisp.
Note that X applications may or may not use the primary selection for their paste operations. For instance, Emacs is configurable by the variable interprogram-paste-function
.