From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch for remote files in dnd.el Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:04:22 +0100 Message-ID: <44CA5FB6.2050909@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154113508 12083 80.91.229.2 (28 Jul 2006 19:05:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:05:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 28 21:05:06 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6Xds-0006Y4-8Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:05:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6Xdr-0007CC-S7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:04:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6Xdh-0007Bv-Qo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:04:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6Xdg-0007Bj-AP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:04:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6Xdg-0007Bg-7R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:04:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.86.207.50] (helo=exchange.integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G6Xfh-0000jf-Vg; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:06:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.0.0.32] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by exchange.integrasp.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id NMA8FAMY; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:56:11 +0100 Original-Received: from 83.67.23.108 ([83.67.23.108] helo=[10.0.0.32]) by ASSP-nospam; 28 Jul 2006 19:56:10 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060516 Thunderbird/1.5.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57748 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > Any objections to installing this now? > > I don't want to add features that work only on proprietary systems. > Our goal is to replace those systems, not to enhance them. > This is a fine feature, but it needs to work on GNU/Linux before > we support it. > It is not a new feature. X desktops tend to use file: urls only for local files, and other protocols are already handled by dnd.el, so remote drag and drop is already available on free systems as far as I can tell. It was also available on Windows up until 21.4, since Windows used its own dnd code that did not try to differentiate local from remote files.