move selection by dragging it with the middle mouse button?

move selection by dragging it with the middle mouse button?

[jarausch]

With my previous editor I could select some text (e.g. by dragging the left mouse button) and then by clicking and dragging with the middle mouse button I could move the selected text around.

Is this possible with Emacs and how?

Many thanks for a hint,
Helmut

Re: move selection by dragging it with the middle mouse button?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

jarausch@skynet.be writes:

> With my previous editor I could select some text (e.g. by 
> dragging the left mouse button) and then by clicking and 
> dragging with the middle mouse button I could move the selected 
> text around. 
> 
> Is this possible with Emacs and how?

No need for dragging, it is very slow. Better left click at the 
beginning of the region you want to move, right click twice at the 
end of the region. Middle click where you want to move the text 
to.

Or even faster avoid the mouse, by the time you got your hand to 
the mouse and found the cursor in the screen, you could have 
C-<space>, do a search with C-s, C-w, another search with C-s or 
C-r, and C-y =)

Best,
-- 
Jorge.

Re: move selection by dragging it with the middle mouse button?

[tomas]

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On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 02:29:24AM -0700, jarausch@skynet.be wrote:
> With my previous editor I could select some text (e.g. by dragging
> the left mouse button) and then by clicking and dragging with the
> middle mouse button I could move the selected text around.
> 
> Is this possible with Emacs and how?

As far as I can see, Emacs can only be a drop target, not a drag source.
So the answer seems to be "sorry, not without changing the C sources".

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.

regards
- -- tomás
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Re: move selection by dragging it with the middle mouse button?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:04:25 +0200
> From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 02:29:24AM -0700, jarausch@skynet.be wrote:
> > With my previous editor I could select some text (e.g. by dragging
> > the left mouse button) and then by clicking and dragging with the
> > middle mouse button I could move the selected text around.
> > 
> > Is this possible with Emacs and how?
> 
> As far as I can see, Emacs can only be a drop target, not a drag source.
> So the answer seems to be "sorry, not without changing the C sources".
> 
> Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.

AFAIK, drag-and-drop does work in Emacs, in both directions.

Re: move selection by dragging it with the middle mouse button?

[tomas]

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On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 05:07:20PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:04:25 +0200
> > From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>

[...]

> > So the answer seems to be "sorry, not without changing the C sources".
> > 
> > Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> AFAIK, drag-and-drop does work in Emacs, in both directions.

So I was wrong, it seems :-)

I'll keep digging: still glad for any hints.

Thanks
- -- tomás
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