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: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:08:47 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200401171729.i0HHT1wq016912@stubby.bodenonline.com> <9616315C-49F9-11D8-A763-00039363E640@swipnet.se> <66F4EDBB-4AC4-11D8-BCBC-00039363E640@swipnet.se> <23DA6486-4B65-11D8-91D5-00039363E640@swipnet.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074719796 21661 80.91.224.253 (21 Jan 2004 21:16:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 21:16:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 21 22:16:24 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 1AjPi3-0002B9-00 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:16:23 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AjPi3-0007j5-00 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:16:23 +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 1AjPeT-0001Nb-3q for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:12:41 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AjPdW-0001In-EB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:11:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AjPcm-0000zZ-1p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:11:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AjPcl-0000zD-Ix for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:10:55 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AjPah-0003BZ-LS; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:08:47 -0500 Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on 20 Jan 2004 13:43:17 -0500) 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:19411 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19411 > Dropping a file name on the menu bar currently opens the file in a new > window. I think that is useful (i.e. I use it all the time :-) It might be useful, but I'd find it confusing. Here's a bizarre idea. If you bring up a menu and drop a file on a menu item, the chosen command operates on that file name as argument. I'd much rather drop directly into the window or maybe the modeline (in case you want the "drop into window" to insert the file's [name] instead). Dropping the file onto the window would mean something else, at least in the case of a dired buffer. It would mean to move or copy the file into that directory. So we can't use that action as the command for opening the file in Emacs.