From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: move selection by dragging it with the middle mouse button? Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:07:20 +0300 Message-ID: <83lhhq97c7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <50f87d47-56b9-49e5-9ff3-948c2e90d15a@googlegroups.com> <20150417130425.GA18903@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429279690 14050 80.91.229.3 (17 Apr 2015 14:08:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:08:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 17 16:07:59 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yj6w3-0004Zc-3P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 16:07:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41580 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yj6w2-0000k8-Ds for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:07:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54950) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yj6vr-0000js-If for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yj6vm-0004Ye-U8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:07:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:39446) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yj6vm-0004YD-Mm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:07:42 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NMY00600EZ3AS00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:07:28 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NMY006TRF8G0470@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2015 17:07:28 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <20150417130425.GA18903@tuxteam.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103775 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:04:25 +0200 > From: > 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.