* Mouse drag-and-drop on Windows
@ 2022-04-25 12:26 Arash Esbati
2022-04-25 12:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-25 12:49 ` Po Lu
0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Arash Esbati @ 2022-04-25 12:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
Hi all,
Emacs 29 has a new option `mouse-drag-and-drop-region-cross-program'
which allows dragging text in the region from Emacs to another program
if non-nil. Is this supposed to work on Windows as well? NEWS says
nothing about this being available only on certain platforms. I can't
grab the text in region with the mouse pointer. Am I missing something?
This is Emacs 91175a1fae on Win10.
Best, Arash
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* Re: Mouse drag-and-drop on Windows
2022-04-25 12:26 Mouse drag-and-drop on Windows Arash Esbati
@ 2022-04-25 12:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-25 12:57 ` Arash Esbati
2022-04-25 12:49 ` Po Lu
1 sibling, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2022-04-25 12:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Arash Esbati; +Cc: emacs-devel
> From: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:26:36 +0200
>
> Emacs 29 has a new option `mouse-drag-and-drop-region-cross-program'
> which allows dragging text in the region from Emacs to another program
> if non-nil. Is this supposed to work on Windows as well? NEWS says
> nothing about this being available only on certain platforms. I can't
> grab the text in region with the mouse pointer. Am I missing something?
Emacs on MS-Windows supports only drag-and-drop FROM other
applications TO Emacs.
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* Re: Mouse drag-and-drop on Windows
2022-04-25 12:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2022-04-25 12:57 ` Arash Esbati
2022-04-25 13:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Arash Esbati @ 2022-04-25 12:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: emacs-devel
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Emacs on MS-Windows supports only drag-and-drop FROM other
> applications TO Emacs.
Thanks for your response. Is there any variable to set to make this
work?
I pasted this snippet into Word,
** New user option 'mouse-drag-and-drop-region-cross-program'.
If non-nil, this option allows dragging text in the region from Emacs to another program.
marked it, and tried to d-n-d it into *scratch* buffer and see a `nay'
symbol.
Best, Arash
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* Re: Mouse drag-and-drop on Windows
2022-04-25 12:57 ` Arash Esbati
@ 2022-04-25 13:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-25 17:32 ` Arash Esbati
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2022-04-25 13:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Arash Esbati; +Cc: emacs-devel
> From: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:57:57 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Emacs on MS-Windows supports only drag-and-drop FROM other
> > applications TO Emacs.
>
> Thanks for your response. Is there any variable to set to make this
> work?
>
> I pasted this snippet into Word,
>
> ** New user option 'mouse-drag-and-drop-region-cross-program'.
> If non-nil, this option allows dragging text in the region from Emacs to another program.
>
> marked it, and tried to d-n-d it into *scratch* buffer and see a `nay'
> symbol.
We only support dragging file names into Emacs (which should cause
Emacs to visit that file). Sorry I didn't mention that before.
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* Re: Mouse drag-and-drop on Windows
2022-04-25 12:26 Mouse drag-and-drop on Windows Arash Esbati
2022-04-25 12:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2022-04-25 12:49 ` Po Lu
2022-04-25 12:59 ` Arash Esbati
1 sibling, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Po Lu @ 2022-04-25 12:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Arash Esbati; +Cc: emacs-devel
Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> Emacs 29 has a new option `mouse-drag-and-drop-region-cross-program'
> which allows dragging text in the region from Emacs to another program
> if non-nil. Is this supposed to work on Windows as well? NEWS says
> nothing about this being available only on certain platforms. I can't
> grab the text in region with the mouse pointer. Am I missing something?
It isn't yet implemented on MS Windows (though I hope it will
eventually.)
Such an implementation will require implementing the `drag-source' value
of `track-mouse', and the function `x-begin-drag'. Its documentation
should be enough to get started.
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