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: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:39:58 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200401171729.i0HHT1wq016912@stubby.bodenonline.com> <20040118004009.GA24635@fencepost> <2C5AAB61-49F7-11D8-A763-00039363E640@swipnet.se> <74293710-4B62-11D8-89AF-00039363E640@swipnet.se> <39277C06-4B8A-11D8-AF87-00039363E640@swipnet.se> <6DDE2AC7-4C61-11D8-89BA-00039363E640@swipnet.se> <6FAAFF66-4DDF-11D8-B739-00039363E640@swipnet.se> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074980642 5809 80.91.224.253 (24 Jan 2004 21:44:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:44:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, storm@cua.dk, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 24 22:43:57 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 1AkVZN-0006es-00 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:43:57 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AkVZN-0006ZW-00 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 22:43:57 +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 1AkVWj-0004XH-8A for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:41:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AkVWE-0004WB-BE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:40:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AkVVh-0004OE-26 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:40:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AkVVg-0004O4-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:40:08 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AkVVW-0000AF-4G; Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:39:58 -0500 Original-To: "Jan D." In-reply-to: <6FAAFF66-4DDF-11D8-B739-00039363E640@swipnet.se> (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:19474 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:19474 So the question was, how can the code know if somebody has reconfigured the dropping of file names to actually insert the file name as text instead of opening it? I don't see why it is difficult to give the user a way to specify the answers. > That might make sense in most cases. But Dired buffers should treat > it differently, and that means it can't be a general Emacs convention. I'm working on dired so it will handle drop of files as a file manager, i.e. move, copy or link them to the directory. Thanks. The point I am making now is that we want to teach people something else--such as dropping on a mode line--as the way to visit a file. That would work regardless of what kind of buffer is currently displayed in the window.