From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Drag and drop patch for X, please review. Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:14:28 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200401171729.i0HHT1wq016912@stubby.bodenonline.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074453479 29266 80.91.224.253 (18 Jan 2004 19:17:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 19:17:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 18 20:17:56 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AiIQm-0006H9-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:17:56 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AiIQm-0002do-00 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:17:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AiIQ5-0001YB-J4 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:17:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AiIPg-0001Ov-6Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:16:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AiIP7-0000uU-I4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:16:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AiIP7-0000ts-34 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:16:13 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AiINQ-0005vA-D4; Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:14:28 -0500 Original-To: "Jan D." In-reply-to: <200401171729.i0HHT1wq016912@stubby.bodenonline.com> (jan.h.d@swipnet.se) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:19240 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19240 It is good that you could implement this mostly in Lisp; that makes it easier to customize and adapt. Thanks for improving the doc strings. Could you put a blank line between a function definition and the preceding comment? If the user drops an icon representing a file into a Dired buffer, I think it should rename or copy the file into that directory. That is what drag-and-drop was used for originally on the Mac: to move files between directories. But I don't see any code here to do rename or copy. Does the current protocol handle dragging and dropping of files in any way? I don't see anything in x-dnd-known-types for files.