Re: master cb45fff0cb: Minor cleanups in X Windows drag-and-drop code

Re: master cb45fff0cb: Minor cleanups in X Windows drag-and-drop code

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

I realise that the DND stuff is still a work in progress, but is it
supposed to work now on a typical Debian/Gnome Shell system?

I tried

(setq mouse-drag-and-drop-region-cross-program t)

and then marked some text, and wanted to drag it to a different program,
but trying to drag it (with mouse-1) just marked some text.  Are there
further things necessary?  If so, the Drag and Drop section in the
manual should say how you do this.

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Re: master cb45fff0cb: Minor cleanups in X Windows drag-and-drop code

[Po Lu]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I realise that the DND stuff is still a work in progress, but is it
> supposed to work now on a typical Debian/Gnome Shell system?

Yes, I test on GNOME Shell, though that's with Fedora.

> I tried
>
> (setq mouse-drag-and-drop-region-cross-program t)
>
> and then marked some text, and wanted to drag it to a different program,
> but trying to drag it (with mouse-1) just marked some text.  Are there
> further things necessary?  If so, the Drag and Drop section in the
> manual should say how you do this.

You have to enable `mouse-drag-and-drop' too, I think the manual does
say this in the paragraph above the one where
`mouse-drag-and-drop-region' is explained.

But please suggest a better wording if that's confusing.  Also, please
report crashes, there are occasionally BadWindow errors which only occur
on GTK.

Thanks.

Re: master cb45fff0cb: Minor cleanups in X Windows drag-and-drop code

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> You have to enable `mouse-drag-and-drop' too, I think the manual does
> say this in the paragraph above the one where
> `mouse-drag-and-drop-region' is explained.
>
> But please suggest a better wording if that's confusing.  Also, please
> report crashes, there are occasionally BadWindow errors which only occur
> on GTK.

Thanks, with

(setq mouse-drag-and-drop-region t
      mouse-drag-and-drop-region-cross-program t)

this does indeed work.  I think what's confusing about that node is that
the start of the node goes into details about dragging *to* Emacs (what
with dnd-indicate-insertion-point etc).  And then midway through the
node, it starts talking about dragging *from* Emacs.

Perhaps it should be split into two subsections -- one about dragging to
Emacs, and one about dragging from Emacs (after the first paragraph
which talks about dragging and dropping in general).

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

Re: master cb45fff0cb: Minor cleanups in X Windows drag-and-drop code

[Po Lu]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> this does indeed work.  I think what's confusing about that node is that
> the start of the node goes into details about dragging *to* Emacs (what
> with dnd-indicate-insertion-point etc).  And then midway through the
> node, it starts talking about dragging *from* Emacs.
>
> Perhaps it should be split into two subsections -- one about dragging to
> Emacs, and one about dragging from Emacs (after the first paragraph
> which talks about dragging and dropping in general).

Hmm, thanks, I will try cleaning that up along those lines.