From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dired-mouse-drag-files Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 17:16:45 +0300 Message-ID: <83k0ciazhu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83o81ub389.fsf@gnu.org> <87o81u6s8x.fsf@yahoo.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11515"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 25 15:21:55 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nXkp8-0002ro-Go for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2022 15:21:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39594 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nXkp7-0006bP-HG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:21:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56972) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nXkkH-0001Yq-3c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:16:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=39054 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nXkkG-00063b-Qb; Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:16:52 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=eYwR3OCiXstSrKsUt1fCng+yKN5Lp2kvWfysnrHNDSY=; b=MUfzb8YV3dXR P8uoRSVoYN9gICRVcT1AEarHyJLHBz+BPfhsuFoW41cHN7rpWC5t1SjYxlCWQ8NQpsda7JflyktNG 9/crScHwBMCmrKA7P599qQWkZmmYJ/EpWksLad7LX7iCo/ywyWWTefFYT9OsIfv5OFebF+FA4yAS7 y6SYHGQ2QtOAChI9NctUtV0PSkZETyaDUursyFDP/bPtstQmCCb3qVQ4OUlkyRkkz2m0n1XhSI6Gz 0UNkX6EpScIJov2dTGP+IIwDtAksz7AwLJ81d1PSCrp9FOnqyD0bQlv1jCnL/ek0AJSj7cgU/xisp 5Lf5TjyusHM0ArWopcMsQg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1077 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nXkkF-0006D1-NR; Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:16:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87o81u6s8x.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Fri, 25 Mar 2022 22:06:54 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:287453 Archived-At: > From: Po Lu > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 22:06:54 +0800 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > This feature is not universally available, but is doc string doesn't > > say so (the manual does). > > > > Moreover, setting the variable non-nil unconditionally shows a tooltip > > on file names in Dired buffers saying that the user can drag the file > > to another program, but that is only so on X; on other platforms it's > > a misleading tooltip. > > > > As an aside, changing the value of the variable doesn't affect the > > Dired buffers that already exist, only those created afterwards, which > > I think is not the best UX. > > > > Can you please fix these issues? > > I will work on them ASAP, tho the idea is to have it universally > available by the time Emacs 29 is released. (If nobody volunteers in a > week, I will try to find the time to implement it on NS.) At least for MS-Windows, I don't think this is a feasible goal, though I'd be happy to be proven wrong. I think we only support dragging file names there, and only _into_ Emacs. So some systems will probably never support this.