From: Tak Kunihiro <homeros.misasa@gmail.com>
To: Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>,
Tak Kunihiro <homeros.misasa@gmail.com>,
rswgnu@gmail.com, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Drag-and-drop FROM Emacs to another editable application window under MacOS
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 23:19:00 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <867ew08n57.fsf@misasa.okayama-u.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+OMD9gErEHYD5d1edCg-80iod-pYj7CTzeg5nwXt1KQ78-19w@mail.gmail.com> (Robert Weiner's message of "Thu, 12 Oct 2017 09:23:47 -0400")
> > I wonder why it doesn't work to drop the text onto other applications.
>
> Probably because there's no standard protocol to drag and drop anything
> but files between different applications.
>
> Maybe not for every window system but on MacOS there is and many applications accept dragged text
> directly:
> https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/drag_and_drop/making_a_view_into_a_drag_source
> - source info
For now `mouse-drag-and-drop-region' does nothing when
(event-end (read-event)) is toward out of the current frame.
I think the first step is to revise `mouse-drag-and-drop-region' to let
it drag text to a different frame.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-12 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-10 21:26 Drag-and-drop FROM Emacs to another editable application window under MacOS Robert Weiner
2017-10-11 20:40 ` Tak Kunihiro
2017-10-11 23:07 ` Robert Weiner
2017-10-12 7:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-12 7:13 ` Robert Weiner
2017-10-12 7:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-10-12 8:05 ` martin rudalics
2017-10-12 13:23 ` Robert Weiner
2017-10-12 14:19 ` Tak Kunihiro [this message]
2017-10-12 16:30 ` Robert Weiner
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