RE: Emacs Explorer?

["Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

I thought we were talking here about dragging text within Emacs (only). A
previous discussion covered dragging text between applications and dragging
files (in general). Perhaps I'm wrong.

emacs -q: MB1, MB3, MB3 again at *same place* kills region (Emacs 20).

By MB1332, I meant move text using the mouse: click MB1 here, click MB3
there (same buffer - defines region), click MB3 again at same location
(kills region), click MB2 there (anywhere - pastes region). 4 clicks. Forget
I mentioned MB1drag32: my bad - you need to do MB1drag332, which is extra
work.

I saw the argument for providing something folks are already used to outside
Emacs. I just didn't see why this would be favored in Emacs by you folks,
who are used to the Emacs mouse. I thought maybe I was missing something.
Thanks for these reasons: better feedback and converting copy<->cut while
dragging.

 - Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan D. [mailto:jan.h.d@swipnet.se]
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:51 AM
To: Drew Adams
Cc: Jason Rumney; Miles Bader; emacs-devel@gnu.org; rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Explorer?


> Those of you who use Emacs and also drag text: What is the advantage?
> Since
> the region is automatically copied to the kill-buffer, and an MB3 click
> kills it, and an MB2 click pastes it elsewhere, how could dragging be
> easier
> (than MB1332 or MB1drag32)?  I don't get it.

What do you mean by MB1332 and MB1drag32?

If we ignore dragging to other applications for now, it is mostly what
you are used to.  Many applications do not paste on MB2, so if you have
the habit of using DND, that is what you like to do.  BTW, MB3 does not
kill the region for me (emacs -q), it extends it.

Then there are other details, like the visual feedback is better for
DND.
You can often change a copy to a cut/paste or vice versa by a press of a
button when the drag is ongoing.

	Jan D.